English Dictionary
motif
n 1: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
2: a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music [syn: {motive}]
3: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or
artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"
[syn: {theme}]
English Computing Dictionary
Motif
The standard {graphical user interface} and {window manager}
from {OSF}, running on the {X Window System}.