Definizione monolingua

motion

motion (third-person singular simple present motions, present participle motioning, simple past and past participle motioned)

1. To gesture indicating a desired movement.

   He motioned for me to come closer.

motion (countable and uncountable; plural motions)

1. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
2. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
3. (physics) A change from one place to another.
4. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.

   The motion to amend is now open for discussion.

5. (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.

6. (philosophy) from ???????; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, 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.""

Definizione dizionario motion

	movimento
	state of progression from one place to another

	mozione
	parliamentary proposal

designare

eleggere

indicare

mostrare

moto

scegliere

	mozioni
	parliamentary proposal

atto

azione

decisione

gesto

mossa

movenza

proposta

Altri significati:

A change in location; the opposite of standing still.

To gesture indicating a desired movement.

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

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

(physics) A change from one place to another.

change of place or position

(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.