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Motif may refer to:

General concepts

• Motif (chess composition), an element of a move in the consideration of its purpose
• Motif (folkloristics), a recurring element that creates recognizable patterns in folklore and folk-art traditions
• Motif (music), a 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, creates a larger work
• Motif (visual arts), a repeated theme or pattern

Biochemistry

• Sequence motif, a sequence pattern of nucleotides in a DNA sequence or amino acids in a protein
• Short linear motif, a stretch of protein sequence that mediates protein–protein interaction
• Structural motif, a pattern in a protein structure formed by the spatial arrangement of amino acids

Other uses

• Motif (2019 film), 2019 Malaysian Malay-language crime drama film
• Motif (album), a 2008 album by guitarist Steve Howe
• Motif (band), a Swedish experimental jazz band
• Motif (software), a GUI specification and widget toolkit for Unix
• Network motif, patterns (sub-graphs) that recur more often than expected
• Yamaha Motif, a series of music workstations

See also

• Meme
• Motive (disambiguation)

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