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motility
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun motility has 2 senses
- motility(n = noun.attribute) Array - ability to move spontaneously and independently; Array is a kind of mobility
- motility(n = noun.act) motion, move, movement - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" is a kind of change
Antonym: immotility
Derived form adjective motile1
has particulars: abduction, adduction, agitation, body english, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, inversion, inversion, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy
CIDE DICTIONARY
motility, n. [Cf. F. motilité.].
Capability of motion; contractility. [1913 Webster]
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