Usually means: Series of images creating movement.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word motion picture:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. motion picture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. motion picture: Merriam-Webster
  3. motion picture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. motion picture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. motion picture: Collins English Dictionary
  6. motion picture: Vocabulary.com
  7. motion-picture, motion picture: Wordnik
  8. motion picture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. motion picture: Wiktionary
  10. motion picture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. motion picture: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Motion picture, motion-picture, motion picture: Dictionary.com
  13. Motion Picture (album), Motion Picture (magazine), Motion-picture, Motion picture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. motion picture: Rhymezone
  15. motion picture: FreeDictionary.org
  16. motion picture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. motion-picture, motion picture: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motion-picture, motion picture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motion-picture, motion picture: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (motion picture)

▸ noun:  A sequence of images depicting people or objects in motion, preserved on a recording medium and capable of being projected for viewing.
▸ noun:  A movie.

Similar:
moving picture, movie, film, picture show, picture, flick, motography, MPEG, movt, Moviola, more...

Opposite:
still image, photograph, snapshot, freeze frame

Types:
drama, comedy, romance, horror, thriller, action, sci-fi, fantasy, animation, more...

Phrases:
motion picture camera, motion picture film, motion picture photography, motion picture fan, motion picture show, more...

Adjectives:
feature-length, filmed, dolly, print, filmcoated, time-lapse, lavender, cume, tween, filmlike, pap

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Similar:
moving picture, movie, film, picture show, picture, flick, motography, MPEG, movt, Moviola, more...

Opposite:
still image, photograph, snapshot, freeze frame

Types:
drama, comedy, romance, horror, thriller, action, sci-fi, fantasy, animation, more...

Phrases:
motion picture camera, motion picture film, motion picture photography, motion picture fan, motion picture show, motion picture experts group, animated motion picture, motion picture industry, more...

Adjectives:
feature-length, filmed, dolly, print, filmcoated, time-lapse, lavender, cume, tween, filmlike, pap



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