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 Mo·tion n.
 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
 Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace
 attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms.   --Milton.
 2. Power of, or capacity for, motion.
    Devoid of sense and motion.   --Milton.
 3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
    In our proper motion we ascend.   --Milton.
 4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
    This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.   --Dr. H. More.
 5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
    Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.   --South.
 6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
    Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.   --Shak.
 7. Law An application made to a court or judge orally in open court.  Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
 8. Mus. Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
    The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.   --Grove.
 Note: ☞ Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is that when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is that when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is that when parts move in the same direction.
 9. A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.]
    What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?   --Beau. & Fl.
 Note: ☞ Motion, in mechanics, may be simple or compound. Simple motions are: (a) straight translation, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. (b) Simple rotation, which may be either continuous or reciprocating, and when reciprocating is called oscillating. (c) Helical, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. Compound motion consists of combinations of any of the simple motions.
 Center of motion, Harmonic motion, etc. See under Center, Harmonic, etc.
 Motion block Steam Engine, a crosshead.
 Perpetual motion Mech., an incessant motion conceived to be attainable by a machine supplying its own motive forces independently of any action from without.  According to the law of conservation of energy, such perpetual motion is impossible, and no device has yet been built that is capable of perpetual motion.
 Syn: -- See Movement.

 Com·pound a.  Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
    Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances.   --I. Watts.
 Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication, division Arith., the addition, subtraction, etc., of compound numbers.
 Compound crystal Crystallog., a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of composition.
 Compound engine Mech., a form of steam engine in which the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders, successively.
 Compound ether. Chem. See under Ether.
 Compound flower Bot., a flower head resembling a single flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion.
 Compound fraction. Math. See Fraction.
 Compound fracture. See Fracture.
 Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.]
 Compound interest. See Interest.
 Compound larceny. Law See Larceny.
 Compound leaf Bot., a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
 Compound microscope. See Microscope.
 Compound motion. See Motion.
 Compound number Math., one constructed according to a varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number.
 Compound pier Arch., a clustered column.
 Compound quantity Alg., a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities.
 Compound radical. Chem. See Radical.
 Compound ratio Math., the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d.
 Compound rest Mech., the tool carriage of an engine lathe.
 Compound screw Mech., a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw).
 Compound time Mus., that in which two or more simple measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining of two measures of 3-8 time.
 Compound word, a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together by a hyphen.