Movement vs Mechanism - What's the difference?
movement | mechanism | Synonyms |
Physical motion between points in space.
(engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
(music) A large division of a larger composition.
(aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
An act of emptying the bowels.
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(obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
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A group of objects or parts that interact together. (as in Political machine )
A mental, physical or chemical process.
(philosophy) A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
Movement is a synonym of mechanism.
As nouns the difference between movement and mechanism
is that movement is physical motion between points in space while mechanism is within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.movement
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*Noun
(en noun)- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- The movement on his cutter was devastating.
Synonyms
* (motion between points in space) motionAntonyms
* (motion between points in space) stasisDerived terms
(derived terms of "movement") * art movement * bowel movement * Brownian movement * camera movement * choreiform movement * countermovement * cultural movement * ecumenical movement * freedom of movement * human movement * literary movement * new religious movement * Oxford movement * Protestant Movement * rapid eye movement * social movement * wh-movementSee also
* speed * symphony * vector * velocity ----mechanism
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism —known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}