mo|ment

mo|ment
mo|ment «MOH muhnt», noun.
1. a very short space of time; instant: »

In a moment the house was in flames. Won't you stay for a moment? Do not delay; the golden moments fly (Longfellow).

 SYNONYM(S): second. See syn. under minute. (Cf. ↑minute)
2. a) a particular point of time: »

We both arrived at the same moment. I could not recall his name at the moment.

 b) a definite stage, period, or turning point in a course of events.
3. importance; weight: »

The President is busy on a matter of moment.

SYNONYM(S): consequence, significance.
4. a tendency to cause rotation around a point or axis: »

Evidence is accumulating to suggest that the biosphere has its own specificity for spin and moment which may well be critical (Atlantic).

5. the product of a (specified) physical quantity and the length of the perpendicular from a point or axis. The moment of a force about a point is the product of the magnitude of the force and the length of the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action of the force.
6. Philosophy. a cause, motive, or stage of a logically developing process of thought or action; momentum.
7. Statistics. any one of several values derived from sums of powers of the variables in a set of data.
╂[< Latin mōmentum movement < movēre to move. See etym. of doublet momentum. (Cf. ↑momentum)]

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