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movent

movent adjective: moving; that moves; that is being moved. Also the alternative form of movant.

Adjective

movent

  1. (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
    • It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2

Noun

movent (plural movents)

  1. (archaic) Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.
    • I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, 3.15.155

Also used as

movent is also the alternative form of movant.

Forms of movent

pluralmovents

Questions about movent

What does movent mean?
Movent means moving; that moves; that is being moved.
What part of speech is movent?
Movent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near movent in the dictionary

  1. movement control orders
  2. movement disorder
  3. movement disorders
  4. Movement for Democratic Change
  5. movements
  6. movent
  7. movents
  8. moveout
  9. moveouts
  10. mover
  11. mover and shaker

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