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Direct
·adj Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
II. Direct ·vi To give direction; to point out a cours...
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Motion
·noun A puppet show or puppet.
II. Motion ·noun Power of, or capacity for, motion.
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to motion
To move; to make a motion; as, 'I motion that the resolution pass.' An old English word rarely used,...
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motion
Change of place; it is termed direct, in the sky, when it is in the direction of the earth's annual ...
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Direct action
·add. ·- ·see <<Syndicalism>>, below.
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Direct current
·add. ·- A current flowing in one direction only;
— distinguished from alternating current. When st...
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Direct nomination
·add. ·- The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather...
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Direct primary
·add. ·- A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.
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Direct-acting
·adj Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
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Direct-coupled
·add. ·adj Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.
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direct fire
One of the five varieties into which artillerists usually divide horizontal fire (which see).
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Electro-motion
·noun The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mecha...
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Excito-motion
·noun Motion excited by reflex nerves. ·see Excito-motory.
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Ideo-motion
·noun An ideo-motor movement.
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Link motion
·- A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an ...
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Motion picture
·add. ·- A moving picture.
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Self-motion
·noun Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion.
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angular motion
is that which describes an angle, or moves circularly round a point, as planets revolving about the ...
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apparent motion
The motion of celestial bodies as viewed from the earth.
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horary motion
The march or movement of any heavenly body in the space of an hour.
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mean motion
The rate at which a body moving in an elliptic orbit would proceed at an equal velocity throughout.
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natural motion
A term applied to the descending parabolic curve of a shot or shell in falling.
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retrograde motion
See motion.
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tropical motion
See motion.
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direct-acting engine
A steam engine in which the connecting rod is led at once from the head of the piston to the crank, ...
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centre of motion
See motion (centre of).
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motion, centre of
That point of a body which remains at rest whilst all the other parts are in motion about it: as the...
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proper motion of the stars
A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...
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radius-bar of parallel motion
An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine.
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