motion

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I filed a motion for sanctions, which was granted in part here.

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Quick take

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of motion gathered in one view.

noun

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

noun

a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

noun

a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for motion.

noun

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

noun

a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

noun

a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion"

noun

a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question"

noun

the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"

noun

an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"

verb

show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave"

Example sentences

I filed a motion for sanctions, which was granted in part here.

A recent motion to dismiss that case based on double jeopardy was denied.

I'd hazard a guess to say that any motion prediction or frame deltas might actually slow the whole chain down.

Escapements are the things that regulate the output of circular motion.

* Use TLS to encrypt data in motion and use GPG to encrypt data at rest, and don't do any other kind of crypto.

One of the findings we had was that if there was any motion at all on the screen, the user felt something was happening.

See, the relationship between motion and gravitation is not as straightforward as it might seem.

And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring.

This is also the same man who hired I. M. Pei as an architect and powered the team that made the first computer animated motion picture.

The current "Hollywood" production-distribution-revenue model came after, as a result of the economics of what it took to make motion pictures profitable.

Ok seems to me that a lot of people are missing the point entirely here... <insert zzzzzoooooooommmmmmm flying hand over the head motion here>Microsoft has always worked hard to make Windows as flexible as possible, hardware wise, functionality, etc.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!