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Poor dear CK; Don't tell me you are half-arsed!
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Yahoo Search box for Physics:
"Brownian movement": twenty sites.
"Brownian motion": seventeen sites.
Seems pretty even.
How odd, in that Google seach gives a great discrepency (but with each used enough to suggest that either one is acceptable):
"brownian movement": 8,720 hits.
"brownian motion": 51,300 hits.
AHD says, "Brownian movement ... [definition] ... Also called Brownian motion."
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Poor dear CK; Don't tell me you are half-arsed!dr. bill, I believe the technical fundament al term is hemipygous. 
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I only recall hearing the term "Brownian Motion" when I was getting my physics degree. I was entirely arsed enough to walk to the basement, dig through a dusty old box of physics texts (I am not sure why depuis 15 years I have lugged them from one side of the continent to the other), and check the indexes. Not a Brownian movement to be found.
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I looked it up in Encarta Encyclopedia:Brownian Motion, constant erratic movement of tiny particles suspended in a fluid or gas.
It appears that the "Brownian Motion" has carried. But notice it is immediated defined as a "movement"!
"Brownian Motion," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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I was going to contribute to this thread but now I can't be arsed. 
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I was going to contribute to this thread but now I can't be arsed.
What a bummer!
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Gosh, if you aren't arsed, where are we to find a brown(ian) movement???
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Don't want to stick my nose in where it's not wanted, but I do second that motion ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Don't want to stick my nose in where it's not wanted, but I do second that motion ...
I believe that would be called Brownian-nosing.
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