Motive

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It has been suggested that motif be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

Look up motive or motif in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Motive or motif may refer to:

In a creative work:

• Motif (music), a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes
• Motif (narrative), any recurring element in a story that has symbolic significance
• Motif (textile arts), a recurring element or fragment that, when joined together, creates a larger work
• Motif (visual arts), a recurrent theme or pattern
• Motive art movement, a philosophical artistic movement started by the artist Blake Ward

In biochemistry:

• Sequence motif, a sequence pattern of nucleotides in a DNA sequence or amino acids in a protein
• Structural motif, a pattern in a protein structure formed by the spatial arrangement of amino acids

In psychology:

• Base motive, in psychology

In music:

• Motive (album), a 1990 album by Red Box
• Motive (SAHB album), a 1990 album by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• Yamaha Motif, a music workstation
• The Motive, a punk band

In computing:

• Motif (widget toolkit), a graphical user interface toolkit used in software development
• Motive, Inc., a software manufacturer
• Aston Motif, a range of character generators manufactured by Aston Broadcast Systems

In other uses:

• Motive (law), in criminal law
• Motif (chess composition), an element of a move in the consideration of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfillment of the problem stipulation
• Motive (algebraic geometry)

Motive can also mean the reason a character does something.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.