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locomotion
lo·co·mo·tion L0224600 (lō′kə-mō′shən)n.1. The act of moving from place to place.2. The ability to move from place to place.
[Latin locō, from a place, ablative of locus, place + motion.]locomotion (ˌləʊkəˈməʊʃən) nthe act, fact, ability, or power of moving[C17: from Latin locō from a place, ablative of locus place + motion]lo•co•mo•tion (ˌloʊ kəˈmoʊ ʃən)
n. the act or power of moving from place to place. [1640–50] lo·co·mo·tion (lō′kə-mō′shən) The ability of an animal to move from place to place. In many animals, locomotion is produced by the action of limbs or other appendages, such as wings or flagella. Other organisms, such as snakes, propel themselves by thrusting the body sideways against a hard surface. Fish move through the water by means of wave-like muscle contractions that course through the body from head to tail.Locomotion (See also VEHICLES.) piggyback Carried on the back or shoulders like a pack; pertaining to the carrying of one vehicle by another. This term, like its 16th-century counterpart, pick-a-back, is of unknown origin. In contemporary usage, piggyback usually refers to carrying a child on one’s shoulders or carrying a truck trailer on a railroad flatcar. ride shanks’ mare To walk; to go on foot. This expression employs a wry twist on shanks ‘legs’ to imply, especially to the uninitiated, that Shanks is actually the name of the owner of a horse which is to be used as a means of conveyance. Common variations substitute pony, nag, horse, etc., for mare. The closely allied shank it means ‘to walk.’ Related drolleries include go by the marrow-bone stage and ride Walker’s bus. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  locomotion - the power or ability to move motive power, motivitymobility - the quality of moving freely | | 2. |  locomotion - self-propelled movement travelmovement, move, motion - the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"brachiation - swinging by the arms from branch to branchwalk, walking - the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise"step - the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"gait - a horse's manner of movingrunning, run - the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit"lope, trot, jog - a slow pace of runningcrawling, creeping, crawl, creep - a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"circle, lap, circuit - movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"dance step, step - a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; "he taught them the waltz step"stroke - any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
locomotionnoun movement, travel, travelling, moving, action, progress, motion, progression, headway He specialises in the mechanics of locomotion.Translationslocomotive (ləukəˈmoutiv) noun a railway engine. 火車頭 火车头ˌlocoˈmotion (-ˈməuʃən) noun the process of moving from place to place. 移動，位移 运动，移动，转位 Locomotion
locomotion[‚lō·kə′mō·shən] (science and technology) Progressive movement, as of an animal or a vehicle. Locomotion in animals and man, a variety of movement, described by an active shift of the body in space, that includes swimming, flying, and various kinds of movement on the ground (including man’s walking and running). Locomotion plays an enormously important role in the life of animals. For example, they move when seeking food and escaping enemies. There are many kinds of locomotion, from the very simplest amoeboid movements of some unicellular organisms to complex locomotor acts. The kinds of locomotion have changed and become more complex during the course of animal evolution, and they have largely determined the structural characteristics of the animals. The appearance of new kinds of locomotion is associated with improvements of the locomotor apparatus, the sense organs, and, especially, the central nervous system. Locomotion is most complex and varied in vertebrates, a brilliant example of the relationship between form and function in evolution (see Figure 1); it includes swimming, flying, gliding, climbing, jumping, brachiation (swinging by the arms), and walking and running on four or on two legs. The various gaits (walk, trot, amble, four-legged or two-legged ricochet, gallop), unlike the methods of locomotion, are determined not by the structure of the locomotor apparatus but by differences in the coordination of the extremities. The changes in locomotion during the course of the transformation of ape to man have played an exceptionally important role: climbing trees facilitated the formation of the grasping organs—the hands— and the transition to walking upright freed the hands for use as organs of work. REFERENCESBernshtein, N. A. Ocherki po fiziologii dvizhenii i fiziologii aktivnosti. Moscow, 1966.
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Gray, J. Animal Locomotion. London, 1968.V. B. SUKHANOV Figure 1. The original mode of locomotion was swimming by flexing the body in a horizontal plane. With the emergence of animals onto dry land, the extremities became the chief organs of locomotion. The basic form of locomotion of terrestrial vertebrates is walking and, for high speeds, running (on four or, less commonly, on two legs). There are two main types of terrestrial locomotion: symmetrical, in which the extremities operate alternately (the front paw always being followed by the hind paw diagonal to it, and rarely the reverse), and asymmetrical, in which the hind paws work alternately or synchronously with the front paws. The earliest terrestrial vertebrates traveled by symmetrical locomotion at a gait by which all paws worked by turn at equal intervals. The need for more rapid locomotion, combined with inadequacies of the locomoter apparatus itself, resulted in a change in rhythm. The interval in the operation of diagonal extremities diminished, while that of extremities on the same side increased: first, a trotlike walk developed; subsequently, a trot developed with diagonal extremities working in unison. Only when the locomotor apparatus improved radically (coinciding with the appearance of mammals) did the amble (whereby extremities on the same side worked in unison) and asymmetrical locomotion (more efficient and swifter than symmetrical) develop. This led to the appearance of the four-legged ricochet, from which evolved the gallop (the most progressive form of locomotion and characteristic only of mammals).locomotion
locomotion [lo″ko-mo´shun] movement, or the ability to move, from one place to another. adj., adj locomo´tive.locomotion the progressive movement of an organism.locomotion
Synonyms for locomotionnoun movementSynonyms- movement
- travel
- travelling
- moving
- action
- progress
- motion
- progression
- headway
Synonyms for locomotionnoun the power or ability to moveSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun self-propelled movementSynonymsRelated Words- movement
- move
- motion
- brachiation
- walk
- walking
- step
- gait
- running
- run
- lope
- trot
- jog
- crawling
- creeping
- crawl
- creep
- circle
- lap
- circuit
- dance step
- stroke
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