locomotion
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locomotion
- /ləʊ.kəˈməʊ.ʃən/ UK
- /ˌloʊ.kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/ Canada, US
- /ləʉ.kəˈməʉ.ʃən/ Australia
Rhymes with -əʊʃən
Where it comes from
From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).
noun locomotions
- The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
- Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming, brachiating or flying. So it is that one of the characteristics that the sperm whale shares with all cetaceans is that it swims by flexing its tail flukes dorso-ventrally, a less efficient way of swimming than that of its distant piscine ancestors, but a mode of locomotion that derives directly from the galloping of its m
- A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive. Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.
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noun ability to move
| Español | locomoción |
|---|---|
| Português | locomoção |
| Français | locomotion |
| Deutsch | Fortbewegungsfähigkeit, Lokomotion, Fortbewegung |
| Italiano | locomozione |
| Ελληνικά | μετακίνηση metakínisi |
| Română | locomoție |
| Русский | ход xod |
Talk about this word "locomotion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/locomotion. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. locomotion. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/locomotion "locomotion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/locomotion.Cite this
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