movement vs undulation

undulation vs movement

movement and undulation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, undulation is a hyponym of movement; that is, undulation 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
undulation: (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

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

movement (noun)	undulation (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
the act of changing the location of something	wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	an undulating curve
the act of changing location from one place to another
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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