Word Meanings - SELF-MOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. Matter is not induced with self-motion. Cheyne.

Related words: (words related to SELF-MOTION)

• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• INDUCTORIUM
  An induction coil.
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• INDUCTANCE
  Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• INDUCTIVE
  1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. 2. Tending to induce or cause. They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. 3. Leading to inferences;
• INDUCTOMETER
  An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.
• INDUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
• INDUCTIVELY
  By induction or inference.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• INDUCT
  Etym: 1. To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott. 2. To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers