(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(v. t.) To propose; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
(19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
Motory
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Motorial
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides the question is followed how far the restriction of the motorial functions in relation to other psychological stress within this illness reduces and neurotizises their attitude to life.
(2) However, unlike the visual area with the alteration of the deficience type (lowered protein contents, reduced dimensions of neurons), the alterations observed in the motory area are of the compensation order (increased protein contents, enlarged neurons).
(3) The sensible and motorial deficit can be decisively influenced by an early exoneration of the neurovascular septum.
(4) Also, the type of illness or disability and motorial handicap as well as the non-verbal intelligence were included.
(5) These patients are especially handicapped in their concentration and motorial performances.
(6) prolonged pregnancy, characteristical "bird headed face", mikrocephaly, shortening, general dystrophy, stato-motorial and mental retardation.
(7) The neuropathological features consisted of scattered neuroaxonal spheroids, fusiform distention of the intramedullary portions of the spinal cord ventral roots and, as defined by microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP 2) immunoreactivity, an initial distention and subsequent loss of dendritic processes in neurons of the nucleus motoris lateralis with the perikaryon of these cells remaining intact.
(8) Comparing dose levels for pentetrazol antagonism or antiaggressive activity with those causing motorial side effects in mice brotizolam (2-bromo-4-(2-chlorophenyl)-9-methyl-6H-thieno[3,2-f]-1,2,4-triazolo [4,3-alpha]-1,4-diazepine, We 941, Lendormin) showed consistently larger dose ranges than diazepam.
(9) They consist in mental alertness disorder, motorial confusion and quite constantly in reflexes and abnormal movements due to brain stem lesion.
(10) Persons with motorial handicaps are able to cope with their disabilities as well as persons without motorial handicaps.
(11) Motorial troubles, which in 13 cases were not detected at the moment of the diagnosis of the other lesions, always occurred later.
(12) The investigation methods included, besides the usual clinical rating scales (Webster, Zung, Hoehn and Yahr), an apparative test series, the so-called 'MLS', which allowed a sensitive and reliable assessment of fine motorial skills.
(13) Interferometrically is was shown that the absence of visual impulsation from the very birth of the animal caused alterations in protein substances not only in the neurons of visual area of the brain cortex but also in those of the motory one.
(14) The cognitive and motory approaches will be set as examples capable of helping the exchange between the two specialties.
(15) In almost all the cases, 24 out of 25, various symptoms such as paresthesiae, pain, and motorial disturbances, were observed even one year after the completion of the treatment.
(16) The motory polarity and coordinated movement disappear immediately after cessation of the stimulus.
(17) C-666 acted spasmolytically on the motory action of intestine muscles while C-829 acted spastically.
(18) By selection and adaptation of tests optimal diagnostics can be completed in the vestibular-ocular, the vestibular-spinal and retinal-ocular sensory motory systems.
(19) The observation period was fixed up to three years, the main points being sports and motorial tests and accompanying medical care and survey by school doctors from the Public Health Centre.
(20) Infants with congenital microcephaly are mentally and motorially severely retarded.