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Mover vs Movent - What's the difference?

mover | movent |

As nouns the difference between mover and movent

is that mover is someone who or something which moves while movent is (obsolete) anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.

As an adjective movent is

(obsolete) moving; that moves; that is being moved.

mover

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who or something which moves.
  • A dancer.

    • Derived terms

    * first mover * prime mover * mover and shaker * household goods mover

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    movent

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
    • It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.
  • * 1656 Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy 3.15.155:
    • I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent , by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.
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