self-moving
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- self-movement noun
- self-mover noun
Etymology
Origin of self-moving
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.
From Literature
There is also Travelmate, a self-moving suitcase that follows its owner and is expected to be available this year.
From New York Times
"Is the highest principle regarded as a fixed, abstract, and rigid one, or as a concrete and self-moving one?"
From Project Gutenberg
The world consists of a finite number of atoms, which have in their own nature a self-moving force or principle.
From Project Gutenberg
Having devised a scheme for perpetual motion he constructed several wheels which he claimed to be self-moving.
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