Noun

(en noun)

A brief, unspecified amount of time.

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The smallest portion of time; an instant.

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Weight or importance.

* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), , 3,7,67:

In deep designs, in matter of great moment , / No less importing than our general good.

* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Second Stain) , (Norton 2005, p.1192)

The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment .

The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.

(label) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

(label) A petit mal episode; such a spell.

(label) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.

(label) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

Noun

(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.

(countable) A change of position with respect to time.

* Dr. H. More

This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion .

(physics) A change from one place to another.

* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

Secondly, When a body is once in motion' it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its ' motion .

(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.

The motion to amend is now open for discussion.

* Shakespeare

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

(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam'', such an ''Adam as he is in the motions .

(philosophy) from ; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.

* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:

"I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors'', whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or ''Spermatical form'' distinct from the ''Rest'' or ''Motion'' of the particles of the ''Matter ."

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

* South

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

(legal) 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.

(music) 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.)

* Grove

The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.

(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

What motion' s this? the model of Nineveh?