The optical illusion whereby a series of static images shown in rapid succession on a screen appear to show a smoothly animated scene.

plural of Brownian movement

repetitive and rapid, jerky, involuntary movement that appears to be well-coordinated; often seen in Huntington's disease.

(medicine) Any abnormality that concerns control of skeletal muscle, from involuntary twitching or lack of coordination to loss of function.

(historical) A group of clerical Oxford dons that tried to link the Anglican Church more closely to its Roman Catholic roots.

plural of wh-movement

(syntax) Movement of a word from the head of one maximal projection to the head of another maximal projection above the first one (i.e., such that the destination head c-commands the original head).

(history) Christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth. / An American evangelical Christian movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

(syntax) a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause.

plural of bowel movement