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Definition of Movements
1. movement [n] - See also: movement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Movements
Literary usage of Movements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Skill in performing finer movements consists largely in the voluntary ... Think,
for example, of the degree of isolation of finger-movements in the ..."
2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The complex of movements has a unity which results from the union of all of the
... General movements as conditions of fusion of retinal sensations. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In most cases of protoplasmic movements light appears to exert uo influence; ...
Again, organs which exhibit spontaneous movements of variation, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Breathing movements. Catching breath, I. Breathing slow and half suspended, i.
... movements involving the trunk. Leaning forward, I. Inhibition of all ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1902)
"The mechanism of production of these voluntary movements is what befalls us to
study now. ... The movements to the study of which we now address ourselves, ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Although a physicist may tell us that on a certain day a change in level is in
operation, our knowledge of this, like that of many other earth-movements, ..."
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"cause of the movements of bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies,
... And if the subject of history is to be the study of the movements of ..."
8. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Skill in performing finer movements consists largely in the voluntary ... Think,
for example, of the degree of isolation of finger-movements in the ..."
9. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The complex of movements has a unity which results from the union of all of the
... General movements as conditions of fusion of retinal sensations. ..."
10. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In most cases of protoplasmic movements light appears to exert uo influence; ...
Again, organs which exhibit spontaneous movements of variation, ..."
11. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Breathing movements. Catching breath, I. Breathing slow and half suspended, i.
... movements involving the trunk. Leaning forward, I. Inhibition of all ..."
12. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1902)
"The mechanism of production of these voluntary movements is what befalls us to
study now. ... The movements to the study of which we now address ourselves, ..."
13. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Although a physicist may tell us that on a certain day a change in level is in
operation, our knowledge of this, like that of many other earth-movements, ..."
14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"cause of the movements of bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies,
... And if the subject of history is to be the study of the movements of ..."