Usually means: Change in position over time.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Motion, motion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. motion, motion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. motion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. motion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. motion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Motion, motion: Wordnik
  7. motion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. motion: Wiktionary
  9. motion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. motion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. motion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. motion: Dictionary.com
  13. motion (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. motion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Motion (American football), Motion (Calvin Harris album), Motion (Lee Konitz album), Motion (The Cinematic Orchestra album), Motion (The Mayfield Four EP), Motion (album), Motion (democracy), Motion (disambiguation), Motion (football), Motion (geometry), Motion (gridiron football), Motion (law), Motion (legal), Motion (parliamentary procedure), Motion (physics), Motion (software), Motion (surveillance software), Motion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Motion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. motion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. motion: Rhymezone
  19. motion, motion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. motion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Motion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. motion: Free Dictionary
  23. motion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. motion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. motion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. motion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. motion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. motion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. motion: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Motion: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Motion (legal), motion: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  14. Motion: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. motion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MOTION: Acronym Finder
  3. motion: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motion: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motion: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See motional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
noun:  (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
noun:  (physics) A change from one place to another.
noun:  (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
noun:  (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
noun:  (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
noun:  Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
noun:  (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
noun:  (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
noun:  (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
noun:  (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
verb:  To gesture indicating a desired movement.
verb:  (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
verb:  To make a proposal; to offer plans.
noun:  A surname.

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