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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locomotion \Lo`co*mo"tion\, n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion.]
The act of moving from place to place. `` Animal locomotion.''
--Milton.The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's; as, do the locomotion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, formed in English from Latin loco "from a place" (ablative of locus "place") + motionem (nominative motio) "motion, a moving."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so. 2 (context biology English) self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
WordNet
n. the power or ability to move [syn: motive power, motivity]
self-propelled movement [syn: travel]
Wikipedia
Locomotion, Loco-Motion, or Locomotor may refer to:
"Locomotion" is a hit single recorded and released by British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and is also the first single taken from their 1984 album, Junk Culture. The song marries downcast lyrics with upbeat melodies and was one of the group's biggest European hits, reaching the top five in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, and charting at number 14 in Germany.
The song was recorded in the last week during the sessions at Montserrat before overdubbing the drums at ICP Studios in Brussels. The original song was combined with a steel drum rhythm that Paul Humphreys had written the previous week and a bass line and piano that Gordian Troeller (the band's manager) contributed. The track was mixed and the brass added at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands. The brass arrangements were made by Tony Visconti.
The song has been included in every OMD singles and greatest hits compilation album.
Live recordings of "Locomotion" have been issued on the 12" releases of the singles " La Femme Accident" (1985) " If You Leave" (1986) and the second CD single of "Everyday" (1993), as well as on the Architecture & Morality & More and Live in Berlin albums.
Locomotion is a railway-related magazine published irregularly in Australia by the Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division. It is edited by the same team who produce Railway Digest.
Locomotion was a TV channel that aired in Latin America from November 1, 1996 until July 31, 2005.
The network, whose corporate offices were based in Miami, Florida (though the network was not available in the United States aside from a few cable systems in southern Florida) was a joint venture between the US-based Hearst Corporation (50%) and Claxson Interactive Group, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Venezuelan-based Cisneros Group) (50%). In May 2002, Cisneros Group sold its shares in the network to Canadian-based Corus Entertainment.
It was also broadcast in Portugal through Cabovisão and TVCabo (now ZON Multimédia) and Spain (by defunct satellite TV operator Vía Digital) until 2003 due to administrative reasons with the TV operator.
Initially, Locomotion was a channel dedicated to classic animation for all ages, airing titles from King Features (which was Hearst's animation division) like Phantom 2040, Popeye, and The Legend of Prince Valiant, and shows like Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Galaxy Rangers, Lupin III, Dr. Katz.
However, the channel did not want to face competition against the already-established Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, so the channel began removing the children's animation in favor for alternative animation, adult series, and anime by 1998, and by 2000, they began airing more alternative and adult-oriented animation from the US, the United Kingdom, and Latin America, as well as anime series. As the network grew, most of their programming consisted of Japanese animation titles from the likes of ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, & Geneon and others as well as adult shows like South Park, The Critic, Crapston Villas and Duckman.
Locomotion was also dedicated to showing works of experimental animation from all over the world throughout the day on-air and online. They aired experimental programming featuring video jockeys, artists who worked with video as a medium.
Usage examples of "locomotion".
Its rather limited behavioural repertoire is virtually confined to eating, sex and locomotion by means of convulsive wriggles.
But in all these motions alike there is the common tendency to seek an appointed place, and in this tendency we seem to have the differentia which separates locomotion from the other species.
Their speed and method of locomotion were both remarkable, springing as they did in great leaps of twenty or thirty feet, much after the manner of a kangaroo.
In extreme cases locomotion becomes impossible, the patient is unable to bring the hand to the mouth, and the speech may become impaired, articulation being difficult and imperfect.
Griggs, who sat here in rheumatic ponderosity, dependent for whatever involved locomotion on the rather alarming alacrity of an impish-looking granddaughter who is elbowing her way through the throng of applicants for places and servants.
Although some thecodonts approached erect posture, they walked flat-footed and were relatively slow in locomotion.
Perm, and it was while waiting for a couple of days at a wayside station in a state of suspended locomotion that he made the acquaintance of a dealer in harness and metalware, who profitably whiled away the tedium of the long halt by initiating his English travelling companion in a fragmentary system of folk-lore that he had picked up from Trans-Baikal traders and natives.
Seeing how important an organ of locomotion the tail is in most aquatic animals, its general presence and use for many purposes in so many land animals, which in their lungs or modified swim-bladders betray their aquatic origin, may perhaps be thus accounted for.
The contrary might be maintained: that change is more plausibly ranked as a species than is Motion, because change signifies merely the substitution of one thing for another, whereas Motion involves also the removal of a thing from the place to which it belongs, as is shown by locomotion.
His source of locomotion was nine tentacles in a trilobate pattern that whipped back and forth like rattlers on methamphetamine.
It reminded Norton of nothing so much as a three-legged spider, or daddy-long-legs, and he wondered how it had solved the problemnever challenged by any creature on Earthof tripedal locomotion.
On the savannah, he suggested, bipedalism was a more suitable mode of locomotion.
Why does the apologist leave unmentioned the symptoms following the subsequent experiments,--the pallor and depression, the blue lips, the difficulty in locomotion, the decided paresis and rigidity of muscles, the profound unconsciousness, THE FINAL PARALYSIS?
As they searched for food the kangaroos levered themselves forward using their forelegs, tails, and those powerful hind legs, a unique means of locomotion.
Substantial, wholesome, and clean--though generated by a wet, helpless creature having no personal charms, and which, having passed the phase of life in which it enjoyed the gift of locomotion, has become a plant-like fixture to one spot--the gas mingles with other diffusions of the reef, recalling villanous salt-petre and sheepdips and brimstone and treacle to the stimulation of the mental faculties generally.