Usually means: Motion continuing without external energy.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. perpetual motion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perpetual motion: Merriam-Webster
  3. perpetual motion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perpetual motion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perpetual motion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perpetual motion: Vocabulary.com
  7. perpetual-motion, perpetual motion: Wordnik
  8. perpetual motion: Wiktionary
  9. perpetual motion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. perpetual motion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Perpetual motion, perpetual motion: Dictionary.com
  12. Perpetual Motion (album), Perpetual Motion (film), Perpetual Motion (solitaire), Perpetual-motion, Perpetual motion (disambiguation), Perpetual motion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. perpetual motion: Rhymezone
  14. perpetual motion: FreeDictionary.org
  15. perpetual motion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. perpetual motion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Perpetual Motion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perpetual motion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perpetual motion)

noun:  (physics) The motion of some hypothetical device that continues forever with no external input of energy, in violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

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