The difference between Movement and Stasis
When used as nouns, movement means physical motion between points in space, whereas stasis means a slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
check bellow for the other definitions of Movement and Stasis
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Movement as a noun:
Physical motion between points in space.
Examples:
"synonyms: motion"
"ant stasis"
"I saw a movement in that grass on the hill."
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Movement as a noun (engineering):
A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
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Movement as a noun:
The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
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Movement as a noun:
A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
Examples:
"The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947."
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Movement as a noun (music):
A large division of a larger composition.
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Movement as a noun (aviation):
An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
Examples:
"Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year."
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Movement as a noun (baseball):
The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
Examples:
"The movement on his [[cutter]] was devastating."
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Movement as a noun:
An act of emptying the bowels.
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Movement as a noun (obsolete):
Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
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Stasis as a noun (pathology):
A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
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Stasis as a noun:
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
Examples:
"His company was sized for growth, not stasis."
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Stasis as a noun (scifi):
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
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Stasis as a noun:
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.