motion definition

motion

General: Proposal formally submitted to a meeting for discussion and possible adoption as a resolution.

Legal: Oral or written application to a court requesting it to issue an order to force performance of an action in favor of the applicant party (called the mover). Normally, the applicant must serve a notice of motion on the opposing party to forewarn it, but some motions (called 'ex parte') can be brought without such warning.

Legislative: Proposal on a specific issue, put for debate and voting under formal parliamentary procedure.

motion is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.

motion appears in the definitions of the following terms: Markov process, energy, oscillation, therblig, job costing, notice of motion, prime mover, time and motion study, proximate cause, motor and

motion appears in the other terms: motion study, Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG)

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