Definitions
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- adjective biology Relating to the
motor faculties. - adjective music, of a rhythm Based on repetition of a single note length
Etymologies
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Examples
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Firstly, it seems to leave out the role commonly ascribed to the so-called motoric part of the nervous system in bringing about bodily action; and secondly, the acknowledgment of the dependence of consciousness on corporeal 'dying' implies that willing is an unconscious activity because of its being based on life processes of the body.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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Physicians use a set of five clinical diagnostic criteria to make the diagnosis, which include presence of OCD or tic disorder, pediatric onset of symptoms, episodic course of symptom severity (meaning symptoms are consistent and do not come and go), association with group A Beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection (GABHS), and association with neurological abnormalities, such as motoric hyperactivity.
Emaxhealth 2009
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It will be a robot if you give it a motoric sensor or a little bit automotion.
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The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.
Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.
Manual transmission Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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In Act I, Mr. Muhly's sound world often recalls Messiaen's evocations of nature; in Act II, as the wives go on TV, he switches to a motoric, minimalist insistence that is more like Steve Reich, an enlivening change in musical tone that is over all too soon.
Stifled Voices Heidi Waleson 2011
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The motoric memory of letters helps in the recognition.
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The motoric memory of letters helps in the recognition.
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The motoric memory of letters helps in the recognition.
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The motoric memory of letters helps in the recognition.
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