motive
Motif (from the Latin motus "movement, drive") stands for:
- Motive (psychology) , personality trait that describes how important certain action goals are to a person
- Motive (right) , intention of an act that is to be judged from a legal point of view
- Motif , in chess patterns or procedures that serve a specific purpose, see Tactics (chess) #Tactical motifs
- Motif , in biochemistry a characteristic pattern of the base sequence or amino acid sequence, see sequence motif
- Motive (mathematics) , universal cohomology theory
in the arts:
- Motif (visual arts) , characteristic or formative element of a work of art, usually in the center of the picture
- Motif (photography) , most important object to be represented in a photograph
- Motif (literature) , material unit in literary works
- Motif (music) , the smallest meaningful unit in a piece of music
- Motif or theme in works of art, see subject
See also:
- Motif bundle (right)
- Motives (Canadian TV series)
- Motivation (totality of all motives)
- Motivation (narrative theory)
- Motif (MOTIF program library)
Wiktionary: Motif - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
