movement vs deflexion

deflexion vs movement

movement and deflexion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
deflexion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deflexion is a hyponym of movement; that is, deflexion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
deflexion: the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position

Other hyponyms of movement include crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, wave, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion, kick, recoil, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, turning, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wave, wobble, commotion, whirl, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, pedesis, decelerated motion, motion with variable acceleration.

movement (noun)	deflexion (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
the act of changing the location of something	the property of being bent or deflected
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
the act of changing location from one place to another	the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation

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