Definition of motion
- n. - 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.
- n. - Power of, or capacity for, motion.
- n. - Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of
the planets is from west to east.
- n. - Change in the relative position of the parts of anything;
action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
- n. - Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or
impulse to any action; internal activity.
- n. - A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress;
esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion
to adjourn.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same
part or in groups of parts.
- n. - A puppet show or puppet.
- v. i. - To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the
hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
- v. i. - To make proposal; to offer plans.
- v. t. - To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head;
as, to motion one to a seat.
- v. t. - To propose; to move.