Definition of "motion picture" [mo•tion pic•ture]

• A movie. (noun)
• The movie industry. (noun)

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• "More far-reaching than the schoolhouse is the motion picture theater."
• "He then married Leota Longmore Blything and lived in Pasadena, where he set up a successful electrical shop that eventually serviced the nascent motion picture industry."
• "But there was still a part of me that wanted to be a motion picture actor, and in 1964 I made my last picture—The Killers."