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Moving yourself through space, because standing still never got anyone to lunch.
means The ability to move from one place to another under one's own power.
from Built from Latin loco (from locus, 'place') plus motion (from movere, 'to move') — so quite literally 'movement from a place.' English engineers and scientists stitched it together in the early 1600s, and it got a huge popularity boost in the 1800s when steam engines needed a name — hence 'locomotive,' the machine defined by its power to move itself.
- root meaning
- latin for moving from a place
- energy hog
- walking burns more calories than most assume
- evolution bet
- legs evolved independently many separate times
- cheapest travel
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