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Motif may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
In creative works
- Motif (folkloristics), a recurring element that creates recognizable patterns in folklore and folk-art traditions
- Motif (music), a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes
- Motif (narrative), any recurring element in a story that has symbolic significance or the reason behind actions
- Motif (textile arts), a recurring element or fragment that, when joined together, creates a larger work
- Motif (visual arts), a repeated theme or pattern
In albums
- Motif (album), a 2008 album by guitarist Steve Howe
In games
- 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
In musical instruments
- Yamaha Motif, a series of music workstations, first released by Yamaha Corporation in August 2001
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
Other uses
- Motif (software), a GUI specification and widget toolkit for Unix
- Network motif, patterns (sub-graphs) that recur within a network much more often than expected at random
See also
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