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What does locomotion mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word locomotion? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
  2. (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
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With no need for locomotion, the arms and legs withered into pencil thin stumps.
All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey.
They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion.
The next step in animal locomotion is to subject animals to perturbations and reveal the function of all their parts.
Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion.
The transition to axial locomotion occurs at near maximum sustained swimming speed.

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