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locomotion

 
('kə-mō'shən) pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of moving from place to place.
  2. The ability to move from place to place.

[Latin locō, from a place, ablative of locus, place + MOTION.]


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Any of various animal movements that result in progression from one place to another. Locomotion is classified as either appendicular (accomplished by special appendages) or axial (achieved by changing the body shape). Aquatic protozoans move by ciliary or flagellar appendages or by pseudopods, footlike appendages. Other forms of aquatic locomotion include walking on legs (some arthropods), crawling (by contracting the body muscles, anchoring to the substrate, and extending), and swimming by either hydraulic propulsion (e.g., jellyfish) or undulation (fishes). Terrestrial arthropods and vertebrates move by means of jointed appendages, the legs. Snakes and other limbless vertebrates crawl by means of muscular thrusts against the substrate. Flight is achieved by the forward thrust of wings.

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Movement, or the ability to move, from one place to another. See also gait, amble, gallop (2), rack, trot, walk.


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The act or power to move from one place to another.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bevægelse, bevægelsesevne, befordring

Nederlands (Dutch)
voortbeweging, vermogen tot voortbeweging, motoriek, verkeer, vervoer

Français (French)
n. - locomotion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Fortbewegung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μετα)κίνηση, μετατόπιση

Italiano (Italian)
locomozione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - locomoção (f)

Русский (Russian)
передвижение, путешествие

Español (Spanish)
n. - locomoción

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förflyttning, rörelse, rörelseförmåga, (kring)resande, resor, transport, fortskaffningssätt

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
运动, 转位, 移动

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 運動, 轉位, 移動

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 이동, 보행, 걸음걸이, 여행

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 運動, 移動, 運動力, 旅行

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تحرك, تنقل, سفر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ניידות, תנועה, אמצעי-תחבורה‬


 
 
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