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Motive or motif are terms that turn up in many different forms in literature and other creative works, as well as other fields such as business and law.
A motif may be a recurring fragment, theme or pattern in a creative work:

Motif (music), a perceivable or salient recurring fragment or succession of notes.
Motif (narrative), any recurring element in a story that has symbolic significance.
Motif (visual arts), a recurrent theme or pattern.
Motif (chess composition), element of a move in the consideration why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfillment of the problem stipulation.

In mathematics:

Motive (algebraic geometry). In 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.

A repeating pattern of elements in a crystal structure. A motive may relate to intent:

Motive (law), in criminal law.

Base motive, in psychology. See also motivation. In music:

Motive (album), 1990 album by band Red Box

Yamaha Motif, a music workstation.

The Motive, a punk band. Others:

Motif (widget toolkit), a graphical user interface toolkit used in software development

Aston Motif, a range of character generators manufactured by Aston Broadcast Systems.

Motive, Inc., a software manufacturer.

Motif of harmful sensation, physical or mental damage that a person suffers merely by experiencing what should normally be a benign sensation.

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