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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motion
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
motion picture
▪ the motion picture industry
motion sickness
perpetual motion
propose a motion/amendment/resolution etc
▪ The resolution was proposed by the chairman of the International Committee.
second a motion/proposal/amendment etc
slow motion
▪ Let’s see that goal again in slow motion.
time and motion study
travel/motion/car/sea etc sickness (=sickness that some people get while travelling)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
circular
▪ When considering circular motion it is often easier to work in terms of the angular velocity rather than ordinary linear velocity.
▪ In fact, each individual drop of water is describing a circular motion which takes it nowhere overall.
▪ Why then does the sun appear to set and to have a circular motion around the Earth?
▪ It lacks the qualities associated with the perfection of the celestial sphere: circular motion, elemental purity, immutability.
▪ He made a circular motion with closed fingers.
▪ Thus the poem has a circular motion corresponding to the circular shape of the object it describes.
▪ Knead the fondant or marzipan thoroughly, using a circular motion to spread the colour evenly.
▪ With shoes off, make a circular motion with the feet to the count of 10, Levi suggested.
constant
▪ The particles in a liquid, like those in a gas, are in a state of constant motion.
▪ The constant motion of the crowds continued to stir the dust.
▪ Though the movements are gentle and slow, each part of the body is in constant motion.
▪ One man said his feet and eyes were in constant motion.
▪ Leaves and small twigs in constant motion.
▪ Loose eggs will hatch if vigorous aeration keeps them in constant motion.
forward
▪ The melodious sound and the forward motion ceased, and he was floating in a hazy limbo of silence, listening intently.
▪ The train staggers into forward motion, then settles into a slow, heavy glide of about five miles per hour.
full
▪ In the case of full motion video, the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
▪ Is full frame, full motion video really important?
▪ First, is between 12 and 15 frames per second full motion?
▪ This is the rate of data transfer needed to produce television quality video in full motion on a full screen.
▪ Using this process, full motion, full frame video can be delivered together with the full range of other media types.
▪ It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
perpetual
▪ The brash internet entrepreneurs of a year ago seemed to think they had discovered the financial equivalent of perpetual motion.
▪ Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
▪ It was in perpetual motion up to and including the moment they all sat in each other's seats.
▪ The cyclical exchange of payments for factors of production and payments for final goods becomes a perpetual motion machine.
▪ Within the Boundless, which is in perpetual motion, worlds, including our world, come into being and pass away.
▪ Earthquakes line the borders of the tectonic plates and are symptoms of the perpetual motion inside our planet.
▪ I can only trace them in their perpetual slow motion upward.
▪ And you were accusing me of being a perpetual motion merchant.
slow
▪ Do the postures continuously, in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading into the next.
▪ There also were beetles crawling on the ice in slow motion.
▪ As he neared me his steps became more deliberate until he was in slow motion.
▪ Everything seemed to proceed in slow motion.
▪ The ball continues its slow but dogged motion, brakes at a patch of dust, trickles on, and mockingly drops.
▪ He ate his tiny ration of cereal in mournful slow motion, to illustrate his unhappiness.
▪ Most would agree, with hindsight, that everything seemed to happen in slow motion, during and after the murder.
▪ He felt as if everyone else, the whole street, the whole afternoon, went into slow motion.
■ NOUN
confidence
▪ His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412.
▪ Defeat on a confidence motion would prompt an early general election.
▪ He remains Prime Minister until he chooses to resign or is defeated on a confidence motion in the House.
▪ Later on Nov. 23 the no confidence motion was defeated by 201 votes to 159, with six abstentions.
▪ Kohl, like Brandt in 1972, engineered the vote by deliberately losing a confidence motion in the Bundestag.
guillotine
▪ Three guillotine motions were tabled for discussion of the Bill that became the Education Reform Act 1988.
▪ A guillotine motion was carried and, after amendment, the bills were accepted.
▪ Mr. Foot Hon. Members will not be able to have a proper debate on a guillotine motion without me.
▪ If this guillotine motion goes through, what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs?
▪ Before the guillotine motion, the longest speech in those proceedings was by the then Minister of State.
▪ It is shocking that a guillotine motion should be produced in such circumstances.
▪ There is no doubt about it - he knows perfectly well the reason why he is introducing this guillotine motion.
▪ Not only are guillotine motions being introduced with phenomenal frequency; they are being introduced at a very early stage.
picture
▪ What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable.
▪ Those who invest with him get the motion picture -- meaning his ongoing judgment, including when to sell.
▪ Meanwhile I was developing a liking for the motion picture business with Miss Hellen Semmens as a central point of interest.
▪ As per above, but for motion pictures.
▪ On a motion picture I have a team of anywhere from one hundred to two hundred people.
▪ Creativity is required, then, for the banker as well as the motion picture director.
▪ The revolution began with the invention of motion picture film early in the twentieth century.
▪ She became adept at filming with a motion picture camera as well as still camera.
sickness
▪ They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness.
▪ By manipulating how the virtual scene moves with your body movements, we may be able to help people with motion sickness.
▪ We are investigating the possibility that motion sickness may be a factor in the unpleasantness of transportation.
▪ They were able to read without the usual motion sickness they frequently get riding in a car.
▪ In fact, some players report motion sickness.
video
▪ In the case of full motion video, the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
▪ As far as motion video, in particular, is concerned, the constraints of available technology force multimedia into a seemingly impossible situation.
▪ Full motion video is not quite within the reach of us mortals, despite the protestations of the add men.
▪ Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio, basic image and software motion video playback capabilities.
▪ Is full frame, full motion video really important?
▪ Now let us look at television information and gain some sense of the amount of data needed to represent motion video.
▪ They claim that the dial up approach cuts the cost of two-way motion video by up to 90 percent.
▪ It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
■ VERB
approve
▪ We owe them that and I think that the House should approve the guillotine motion.
carry
▪ The University Labour Federation failed to carry its motion to reject the report.
▪ He carried his motion by 44 votes to 1.
defeat
▪ Eloquence alone was sufficient to defeat the motion.
▪ I do not know if Nico is looking for more time, or trying to defeat the motion.
▪ He remains Prime Minister until he chooses to resign or is defeated on a confidence motion in the House.
▪ Earlier yesterday the government had defeated an opposition censure motion in the lower house of parliament.
file
▪ Gen Jaruzelski's defence lawyers first filed a motion requesting more evidence from prosecutors before charges were laid.
▪ So far this year, it has filed two motions for injunctions against a planned federal inquest on sects and cults.
▪ When Acevedo refused to provide names, the city filed a motion to terminate her workers' compensation benefits.
▪ The law requires courts to hold up most discovery proceedings until companies can file a motion to dismiss a suit.
go
▪ Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
▪ We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot, that we can survive by going through the motions.
▪ The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction, or with subversion and disdain.
▪ I could see the rounds hitting the water close to me, and everything went in slow motion.
▪ The next moment Mrs Taxos gave a mighty yell and slapped the donkey's rump and they went into motion.
▪ They begin to go through motions of dancing, holding on to the steel poles that support the ceiling, jerking mechanically.
▪ But even they seemed to be going through the motions, quite without conviction.
▪ He felt as if everyone else, the whole street, the whole afternoon, went into slow motion.
move
▪ I therefore move the motion with a glass of privatised water ready to hand.
▪ When he moves, his motions appear uncontrived.
▪ The characters in the bar seemed to be moving with slow jarring motions.
▪ That has continually happened when other hon. Members have sought to move the carry-over motion.
▪ He was moving in slow motion when Jimmy let off a sudden burst that sent chunks of sidewalk flying everywhere.
pass
▪ Bowel training showed less social class difference possibly because there are clearer anticipating signs of passing a motion.
▪ He passes quickly on our motions for production.
▪ At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion.
▪ After hearing from about a dozen pissed-off citizens, they passed the motion 3-0.
▪ Later the child is encouraged to pass motions while in the bathroom or lavatory.
▪ Once this is well established the sticker is only awarded for passing a motion into the lavatory.
▪ Luke, a 4-year-old boy, would sit on his heels in order not to pass a motion.
▪ He refused to pass motions in the toilet and had phases of extreme stomach-ache and lethargy due to his extreme constipation.
propose
▪ In March 1922 Steel-Maitland proposed a strong motion of confidence in Younger that was a clear rebuke to his critics.
▪ It would be a formality for a representative of the Assembly to ask the Archon to propose the opening motion.
put
▪ I shower in lukewarm water and decide on thick white running shorts and matching top which I put on in slow motion.
▪ The President would lose the right to put down a motion for the government's dismissal.
▪ In July and August the process of selling the 99 separate state-owned forests was put in motion.
▪ There was no desperate urgency, I said, but wheels should be put in motion.
▪ Coun Peter Jones has put forward a special motion to the next full council meeting on March 26.
▪ Mr Trimble's opponents within unionism say they will put forward a motion to exclude Sinn Fein from government.
second
▪ He sat down to applause and was followed by H B Beale from Gloucestershire who seconded the motion.
set
▪ The programme had lost the man responsible for setting it in motion.
▪ A weight suspended on the end of a piece of string and then set in motion acts as a pendulum.
▪ Once set in motion this requires only the periodic visit to negotiate such matters as price changes.
▪ Life should do more than spin on like an idiotic top some one had set in motion but could no longer stop.
▪ The wheels have already been set in motion.
▪ In any case, an irresponsible control program has been set in motion without sufficient information as to its future effects.
▪ When the glass was touched, the mechanism was set in motion.
support
▪ I did not support the timetable motion and believe that my decision was right.
▪ He could not support the motion in its entirety.
▪ Unions supporting the motion included the transport workers, shop workers and public employees.
▪ I hope that the House will support the motion.
▪ We must have the proposals in it, so I hope that all my hon. Friends will support the motion.
▪ There is no way that I will support the guillotine motion.
table
▪ Mr. Renton I know that the hon. Gentleman tabled an early-day motion on the subject a short time ago.
▪ The move came after a vote by regents indefinitely tabling a motion to rescind their July 20 vote revising admissions policies.
vote
▪ They wanted them to vote against a motion to ban hunting on all county council owned land.
▪ I will be voting for the motion.
▪ And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country.
▪ Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice.
▪ Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart.
▪ I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15.
▪ The players are sure to vote in favour of the motion to play for the honour and not the cash.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put down a motion/an amendment
set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning
table a proposal/question/motion etc
▪ Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £34 million a year.
▪ Even our own wets will summon up the courage to table a question or two.
▪ He has tabled a question on the issue for tomorrow's council meeting.
▪ If the hon. Gentleman wants to table a question or write to me, I shall be glad to enlarge upon that.
▪ The move came after a vote by regents indefinitely tabling a motion to rescind their July 20 vote revising admissions policies.
▪ The Umpires' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb.
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a smooth throwing motion
▪ For any exercise with a bending motion, the knees must be slightly bent.
▪ the gentle rolling motion of the ship
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All motion is of course relative.
▪ Geometry, then, is concerned with the production of figures by various motions.
▪ I look forward to smoother graphs of pendulum motion!
▪ Immediately after the motion was read on the floor, it was tabled by a near-party line vote.
▪ It takes a day at least for me to become accustomed to the motion of the ship.
▪ Its motion can be detected - for example, by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle.
▪ Older men and women are running motion offense drills, practicing low post moves.
▪ Slow at first, the motion gathered speed until it was too dazzling for the eye to follow.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
say
▪ Jane said, motioning her away.
▪ Larwood said Jardine motioned the field to the leg side.
set
▪ Assets abroad were frozen by the U. N. These events set into motion the erasure of the middle class.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kemp started to object, but I motioned him to be quiet.
▪ Neil finished his meal, and then motioned to the waitress.
▪ Seeing Bert in the doorway, I motioned for him to come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dunne motioned to the bartender, who refilled their glasses again.
▪ He motioned to the barman to refill their glasses, a feeling of satisfaction running through him.
▪ I motioned to her to sit down and we started on the mail.
▪ Mrs Vanya turned on a weak light, and motioned for me to sit.
▪ The gun motions for John to rise.
▪ The oldest daughter motioned to the third daughter, who tiptoed into the circle the women had made around the old man.
▪ The Sheikh motioned us to sit down, left his men outside, and picked up the phone on the table.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motion

Motion \Mo"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. motio, fr. movere, motum, to move. See Move.]

  1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.

    Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms.
    --Milton.

  2. Power of, or capacity for, motion.

    Devoid of sense and motion.
    --Milton.

  3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

    In our proper motion we ascend.
    --Milton.

  4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

    This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.
    --Dr. H. More.

  5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

    Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
    --South.

  6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

    Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
    --Shak.

  7. (Law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
    --Mozley & W.

  8. (Mus.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

    The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
    --Grove.

    Note: Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is that when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is that when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is that when parts move in the same direction.

  9. A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.] What motion's this? the model of Nineveh? --Beau. & Fl. Note: Motion, in mechanics, may be simple or compound. Simple motions are:

    1. straight translation, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating.

    2. Simple rotation, which may be either continuous or reciprocating, and when reciprocating is called oscillating.

    3. Helical, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating.

      Compound motion consists of combinations of any of the simple motions.

      Center of motion, Harmonic motion, etc. See under Center, Harmonic, etc.

      Motion block (Steam Engine), a crosshead.

      Perpetual motion (Mech.), an incessant motion conceived to be attainable by a machine supplying its own motive forces independently of any action from without. According to the law of conservation of energy, such perpetual motion is impossible, and no device has yet been built that is capable of perpetual motion.

      Syn: See Movement.

Motion

Motion \Mo"tion\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Motioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Motioning.]

  1. To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

  2. To make proposal; to offer plans. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Motion

Motion \Mo"tion\, v. t.

  1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

  2. To propose; to move. [Obs.]

    I want friends to motion such a matter.
    --Burton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motion

late 14c., "suggestion; process of moving," from Old French mocion "movement, motion; change, alteration" (13c.), from Latin motionem (nominative motio) "a moving, a motion; an emotion," from past participle stem of movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Motion picture attested from 1896.

motion

late 15c., "to request, petition" (obsolete), from motion (n.). The sense in parliamentary procedure first recorded 1747; with meaning "to guide or direct by a sign, gesture, movement" it is attested from 1787. Related: Motioned; motioning.

Wiktionary
motion

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A state of progression from one place to another. 2 (context countable English) A change of position with respect to time. 3 (context physics English) A change from one place to another. 4 (context countable English) A parliamentary action to propose something. 5 (context obsolete English) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show. 6 (context philosophy English) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place. 7 Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. 8 (context legal English) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. 9 (context music English) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (''Conjunct motion'' is that by single degrees of the scale. ''Contrary motion'' is when parts move in opposite directions. ''Disjunct motion'' is motion by skips. ''Oblique motion'' is when one part is stationary while another moves. ''Similar'' or ''direct motion'' is when parts move in the same direction.) 10 (context obsolete English) A puppet, or puppet show. vb. 1 To gesture indicating a desired movement. 2 (context proscribed English) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure. 3 To make a proposal; to offer plans.

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WordNet
motion

v. show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture]

motion

  1. n. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [syn: movement]

  2. the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals [syn: gesture]

  3. a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [syn: movement, move, motility]

  4. a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion" [ant: motionlessness]

  5. a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question" [syn: question]

  6. the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" [syn: movement, move]

  7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement]

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Wikipedia
Motion (democracy)

A motion is a formal step to introduce a matter for consideration by a group. It is a common concept in the procedure of trade unions, students' unions, corporations, and other deliberative assemblies. Motions can be oral or in writing, the written form being known as a resolution.

Motion (software)

Motion is a software application produced by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. It is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects.

Motion (physics)

In physics, motion is a change in position of an object with respect to time. Motion is typically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, time and speed. Motion of a body is observed by attaching a frame of reference to an observer and measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame.

If the position of a body is not changing with respect to a given frame of reference, the body is said to be at rest, motionless, immobile, stationary, or to have constant ( time-invariant) position. An object's motion cannot change unless it is acted upon by a force, as described. Momentum is a quantity which is used for measuring motion of an object. An object's momentum is directly related to the object's mass and velocity, and the total momentum of all objects in an isolated system (one not affected by external forces) does not change with time, as described by the law of conservation of momentum.

As there is no absolute frame of reference, absolute motion cannot be determined. Thus, everything in the universe can be considered to be moving.

More generally, motion is a concept that applies to objects, bodies, and matter particles, to radiation, radiation fields and radiation particles, and to space, its curvature and space-time. One can also speak of motion of shapes and boundaries. So, the term motion in general signifies a continuous change in the configuration of a physical system. For example, one can talk about motion of a wave or about motion of a quantum particle, where the configuration consists of probabilities of occupying specific positions.

Motion (The Cinematic Orchestra album)

Motion is the debut LP by The Cinematic Orchestra, released on 27 September 1999 on Ninja Tune. The album's concept came from core band member, Jason Swinscoe, who had amassed various samples - drum patterns, basslines and melody samples - that had inspired and influenced him. He then presented them to a group of musicians to learn and then improvise around. The resulting draft tracks were then re-mixed on computer by Swinscoe to create the finished album.

Motion

Motion may refer to:

  • Motion (physics), any movement or change in position or time
  • Motion in United States law, a procedural device in law to bring a limited, contested matter before a court
  • Motion (democracy), a formal step to introduce a matter for consideration by a group
  • Motion (parliamentary procedure), a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action
  • Motion (American football), a movement by an offensive player prior to the start of a play
  • Motion (geometry), a type of transformation in various geometrical studies
  • Motion, California, a community in the United States
  • Motion, the connecting rods and valve-gear of a steam locomotive
  • Motion, an outdoor activity TV program on the Live Well Network
  • The motions, an informal term for contentment
Motion (The Mayfield Four EP)

Motion: Live: 9.17.97, commonly referred to as Motion, is a live EP released by The Mayfield Four, released in 1997. It is a very rare item and is a highly sought after collector's item among fans. Myles Kennedy (Former Mayfield Four vocalist) States that "only about 5,000 copies were ever made."

Some people have noticed that the CD itself has no bar code. So it is unlikely that they were sold or distributed as a normal CD would be.

Motion (gridiron football)

In gridiron football, motion refers to the movement of an offensive player at or prior to the snap.

Motion (Lee Konitz album)

Motion is an album by jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, recorded in 1961 for Verve Records. It features drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Sonny Dallas. It is regarded by many as Konitz's finest album. The 1990 CD issue expanded the number of tracks from five to eight; a 1998 release then expanded this to 38, although most of the additional tracks were from different recording sessions with drummer Nick Stabulas instead of Elvin Jones.

Motion (Almah album)

Motion is the third studio album by Brazilian power metal band Almah released in July 2011.

Motion (parliamentary procedure)

In parliamentary procedure as defined in Robert's Rules of Order, a motion is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action.

Motions can bring new business before the assembly or consist of numerous other proposals to take procedural steps or carry out other actions relating to a pending proposal (such as postponing it to another time) or to the assembly itself (such as taking a recess).

In a parliament, it may also be called a parliamentary motion and may include legislative motions, budgetary motions, supplementary budgetary motions, and petitionary motions.

Motion (conference)

motion is one of North America’s leading innovative and uniquely intimate conference for creatives. Influential creative pros in the motion picture and broadcast industries take the stage to share unique concepts and innovative ideas: 18-minute TED talk style presentations designed to revitalize the creative muse and feed your creative brain.

motion was founded in 2006, as a one-off one-day regional event taking place in the Southwest part of the United States. In 2007, the conference became an annual multi-day worldwide event, and is attended by creatives including motion designers, producers, visual effects artists, writers, animators, motion picture title designers, broadcast designers, creative directors, graphic designers, and illustrators.

June 2015, motion will be held at the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium in Santa Fe, New Mexico in conjunction with CURRENTS New Media festival.

Motion (surveillance software)

Motion, a software motion detector, is a free, open source CCTV software application developed for Linux.

It can monitor video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed saving away video when it detects that motion is occurring (it can also do time lapse videos, et al.).

The program is written in C and is made for Linux (exploiting video4linux interface). Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, netpbm files or mpeg video sequences. It is strictly command line driven and can run as a daemon with a rather small footprint and low CPU usage.

It is operated mainly via config files, though the end video streams can be viewed from a web browser. It can also call to user configurable "triggers" when certain events occur.

Motion (geometry)

In geometry, a motion is an isometry of a metric space. For instance, a plane equipped with the Euclidean distance metric is a metric space in which a mapping associating congruent figures is a motion. More generally, the term motion is a synonym for surjective isometry in metric geometry, including elliptic geometry and hyperbolic geometry. In the latter case, hyperbolic motions provide an approach to the subject for beginners.

Motions can be divided into direct and indirect motions. Direct, proper or rigid motions are motions like translations and rotations that preserve the orientation of a chiral shape. Indirect, or inproper motions are motions like reflections, glide reflections and Improper rotations that invert the orientation of a chiral shape. Some geometers define motion in such a way that only direct motions are motions.

Motion (Calvin Harris album)

Motion is the fourth studio album by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris, released on 31 October 2014 by Fly Eye Records and Columbia Records. The album includes collaborations with vocalists Ellie Goulding, Gwen Stefani, John Newman and Tinashe; rapper Big Sean; DJs Alesso, R3hab, Ummet Ozcan and Firebeatz; and the groups Hurts, Haim and All About She.

The album received mixed responses from critics. Motion debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, with 37,325 copies sold in its first week. It debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and became Harris's second consecutive number-one album on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The album's first three singles—" Under Control", " Summer" and " Blame"—all topped the UK Singles Chart. Other singles released from the album include " Outside", " Open Wide" and " Pray to God".

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Usage examples of "motion".

These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.

But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious.

There is no way of distinguishing an accelerated motion from a gravitational field force, right?

The observations of such individuals will be more complicated to analyze than those of constant-velocity observers, whose motion is more serene, but nevertheless we can ask whether there is some way of taming this complexity and bringing accelerated motion squarely into our newfound understanding of space and time.

We can imitate the effect of gravity through suitably accelerated motion.

On the other hand, accelerated motion, although somewhat more complicated than constant-velocity motion, is concrete and tangible.

Achieving this end required that Einstein forge a second link in the chain uniting gravity and accelerated motion: the curvature of space and time, to which we now turn.

In the example of the terrorist bomb, we learned that gravitational forces are indistinguishable from accelerated motion.

Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.

Recall that an object is accelerating if either the speed or the direction of its motion changes.

Thenceforth, he contented himself with quick looks and glances, easily interpreted, or by some acquiescent motions of his hands, when such could be convenient, to emphasise his idea of the correctness of any inference.

The government resisted this, and Lord John Eussell, with a tone of ridicule and acrimony, offered the motion an ostentatious opposition.

If on the other hand by this actualization it is meant that he is Act and Intellection, then as being Intellection he does not exercise it, just as movement is not itself in motion.

Then, for the first time, I felt acutely the coolness, motion, and dampness of the surrounding air.

But the strongest argument in their favour was that adduced by Lord Althorp, which was to the effect, that, if his motion were lost, it would upset the ministry.