movement

noun11

1. •
   a change in the place or position of someone or something

   • I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
2. •
   An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

   • Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
3. •
   The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

   • The movement on his cutter was devastating.
4. •
   A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.

   • The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
5. •
   A large division of a larger composition.

   • Beethoven's movements
6. •
   A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
7. •
   (euphemistic) Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).

   • when after a movement feces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected, — 1923
8. •
   The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
9. •
   Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
10. •
    A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
11. •
    (no longer used) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.