Movement
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Movement may refer to:
- Motion, change in position
- Locomotion, active movement or travel
- Transport, the movement of people, goods, signals and information
- Defecation, sometimes called a bowel movement
- Movement (clockwork), all the main parts of a watch
- Nastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuli
- Intermittent mechanism, the device by which film is regularly advanced in a movie camera or projector
- Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon
- Movements (sacred dances), collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff
- The Movement (literature), writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, et. al
In music:
- Movement (music), a large division of a larger composition or musical form
- Movement (album), New Order's 1981 album
- The Movement (album), by Inspectah Deck
- The Movement (group),a techno act from Los Angeles California
In social studies:
- Art movement, a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal
- Cultural movement, change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work
- New religious movement, a religious, ethical, or spiritual grouping of fairly recent origin
- Social movement, a type of group action
In politics:
- Political movement, a social movement working in the area of politics
- National Resistance Movement, a political organization in Uganda
- Democratic Labor Party, a Australian political party also known as 'The Movement'
