self-moving

[self-moo-ving, self-]

adjective

1. capable of moving without an external agency.

Other Word Forms

• self-movement noun
• self-mover noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-moving¹

First recorded in 1575–85

Example Sentences

Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.

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There is also Travelmate, a self-moving suitcase that follows its owner and is expected to be available this year.

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"Is the highest principle regarded as a fixed, abstract, and rigid one, or as a concrete and self-moving one?"

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The world consists of a finite number of atoms, which have in their own nature a self-moving force or principle.

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Having devised a scheme for perpetual motion he constructed several wheels which he claimed to be self-moving.

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Related Words

• automated www.thesaurus.com
• electric 
• electronic 
• mechanical