movement(POSITION CHANGE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement
ambulatory
be treading wateridiom
biodynamics
comings
floating
gestural
laminar
mobility
motile
motility
motion
movable
movement
passage
pull
rooted
rooted to the spotidiom
sensorimotor
slithery
tread

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General words for movement

Examples from literature

Animals move in many different ways, and there are different names to describe these special kinds of locomotion. 
Animals use many different kinds of locomotion. 
Locomotion is the way things move and travel. 
People mostly use their legs for locomotion. 
People study the locomotion of animals and use the information in interesting ways. 
This kind of locomotion is called slithering. 

locomotion | American Dictionary

locomotion
noun[ U ]
us/ˌloʊ·kəˈmoʊ·ʃən/
the ability to move; movement

Examples of locomotion

locomotion
Without contractile contacts, cells cannot assemble matrix or exert the tension on surrounding matrix and cytoskeleton that is also needed for locomotion.
Moreover, the results of several simulations agree with experimental results obtained from the study of biological locomotion.
Interaction between d-amphetamine and ethanol with respect to locomotion, stereotypies, ethanol sleeping time, and the kinetics of drug elimination.
For such locomotion limb with only two joints at hip and knee, an initial backward flexion will help to produce a suitable swing motion.
The higher level control center gathered sensory information and initiated locomotion with appropriate adjustments.
It is necessary that the navigation and locomotion system monitor feedback sensors to ensure that the rover state does not exceed safety limits.
These actin filaments were distributed intensively between the trophectodermal cells, and formed locomotion patterns.
Bacterial locomotion is a kind of random walk.
The aim is to verify whether a correlation between different viewpoints can be found during robot locomotion.
In contrast, in the locomotion task she negotiated the obstacles as well as the control subjects.
In general, for legged locomotion these natural dynamics are not or only partially exploited.
Recent work with human infants and nonhuman primates suggests that manual preference may have evolved closely after the emergence and adoption of upright bipedal locomotion.
How would the perception and control of locomotion develop if infants were restrained?
The robot is able to hop on an irregular terrain, since it is possible to change its objective locomotion parameters from one hop to another.
In these cases of locomotion on a so-called irregular terrain, legged robots demonstrate better mobility and versatility when compared to tracked or wheeled vehicles.
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