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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.
These life forms most likely have appendages for the purpose of locomotion.
The transition to axial locomotion occurs at near maximum sustained swimming speed.
All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey.
Though rarely seen, it appears always to be close at hand and never at a loss for means of locomotion and transport.
They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion.

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