Erratic vs. Motion — What's the Difference?

Having no fixed or regular course; wandering

In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and time.

Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity

The action or process of moving or being moved

Deviating from the customary course in conduct or opinion; eccentric

A formal proposal put to a legislature or committee

A rock fragment that has been transported by ice to a location other than its place of origin and that may range in size from a pebble to a large boulder.

An evacuation of the bowels

Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.

Direct or command (someone) with a movement of the hand or head

Deviating from normal opinions or actions; eccentric; odd.

Propose for discussion and resolution at a meeting or legislative assembly

(geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.

The act or process of changing position or place.

Anything that has erratic characteristics.

A meaningful or expressive change in the position of the body or a part of the body; a gesture.

Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; - hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.

Active operation

Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.

The ability or power to move

Irregular; changeable.

The manner in which the body moves, as in walking.

One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.

A prompting from within; an impulse or inclination

A rogue.

(Music) Melodic ascent and descent of pitch.

Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.

(Law) An application made to a court for an order or a ruling.

Having no fixed course;

A formal proposal put to the vote under parliamentary procedures.

Liable to sudden unpredictable change;

A mechanical device or piece of machinery that moves or causes motion; a mechanism.

Likely to perform unpredictably;

The movement or action of such a device.

To direct by making a gesture

To indicate by making a gesture; signal

To make a motion (that something should happen).

To signal by making a gesture

(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.

(countable) A change of position with respect to time.

(physics) A change from one place to another.

(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

(philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

(law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.

(euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.

(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)

(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.

(mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.

To gesture indicating a desired movement.

(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.

To make a proposal; to offer plans.

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; - opposed to rest.

Power of, or capacity for, motion.

Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

A puppet show or puppet.

To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

To make proposal; to offer plans.

To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

To propose; to move.

A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

A change of position that does not entail a change of location;

A state of change;

A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;

The act of changing location from one place to another;

An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;

Show, express or direct through movement;