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Motion (Movement In art the change)

a movement. In art, the change of place or position which from certain attitudes a figure seems to be making. In law, an application made to a court of justice by the parties to an action or their counsel, to obtain some rule of order of court necessary to the progress of the action. In music: (1) The movement of a single part with reference to intervals taken by it. Conjunct motion takes place when the sounds move by single degrees of the scale, e. g., C, D, E, F; disjunct motion is when they move by skips, e. g., C, F, D, G. (2) The movement of two or more parts with relation to each other. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction either by single degrees or by skips; contrary motion is when parts MOTION STUDY move in opposite directions; oblique motion is when one part remains stationary while another moves.

In watches and clocks, the train of wheels immediately concerned in the moving of the hands.

Organic molecular motion, a kind of motion occurring in nearly all the internal processes in organic bodies. It must exist to produce absorption, secretion, etc.