natural motion

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• Natural

  ·noun Natural gifts, impulses, ·etc. II. Natural ·adj Conformed to truth or reality. III. Natural ...

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• natural

  A mistress, a child; also an idiot. A natural son or daughter; a love or merry-begotten child, a bas...

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• Motion

  ·noun A puppet show or puppet. II. Motion ·noun Power of, or capacity for, motion. III. Motion ·vi...

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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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• Natural steel

  ·add. ·- Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct proce...

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• natural fortification

  Those obstacles, in the form or nature of the country, which impede the approaches of an enemy. ...

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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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• direct motion

  See motion. ...

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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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• retrograde motion

  See motion. ...

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• tropical motion

  See motion. ...

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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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