Motif

Motif may refer to:

Creative work

• 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

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 (album), a 2008 album by guitarist Steve Howe
• 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
• 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
• Yamaha Motif, a music workstation

See also

• Motive