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What does locomotion mean?

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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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The transition to axial locomotion occurs at near maximum sustained swimming speed.
As her pain made locomotion distressing, the father had to carry his daughter home.
The next step in animal locomotion is to subject animals to perturbations and reveal the function of all their parts.
Some evidence indicates that the traction exerted during cell locomotion can concomitantly compact the surrounding network.
With no need for locomotion, the arms and legs withered into pencil thin stumps.
However, the transition from cursorial to aerial locomotion and maneuvering was not as simple as growing large wings.

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