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Noun: relative motion
  1. Motion as observed from or referred to some material system constituting a frame of reference (as two adjacent walls and floor of a room).
    "The velocity of a point in relative motion is called the relative velocity vrel, and the point's acceleration is referred to as the relative acceleration wrel."

Type of: motion

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