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Motility   /moʊtˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Motility

noun
1.
Ability to move spontaneously and independently.
2.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motion, move, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"





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"Motility" Quotes from Famous Books



... to any one that in order to educate the voluntary motility of a child, it would be well first of all to keep it absolutely motionless, covering its limbs with cement (I will not say fracturing them!) until the muscles become atrophied and almost paralyzed; and then, when this result had been attained, that it ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... is deeply pitted, as is found to be the case in red algae. Reproduction is chiefly effected by the vegetative method. Asexual reproductive cells are not infrequent, but sexual reproduction even in its initial stages is unknown. Nor is motility by means of cilia known in the group. In the unicellular forms, cell-division involves multiplication of the plant. In all the multicellular plants of this group which have been adequately investigated, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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