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moment
[ moh-muhnt ]
/ ËmoÊ mÉnt /
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Origin of moment
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Words nearby moment
mom, Momaday, mom-and-pop, Mombasa, mome, moment, momentarily, momentary, momently, momento, moment of inertia
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British Dictionary definitions for moment
moment
/ (ËmÉÊmÉnt) /
noun
a short indefinite period of timehe'll be here in a moment
a specific instant or point in timeat that moment the doorbell rang
the moment the present point of timeat the moment it's fine
import, significance, or valuea man of moment
physics
- a tendency to produce motion, esp rotation about a point or axis
- the product of a physical quantity, such as force or mass, and its distance from a fixed reference pointSee also moment of inertia
statistics the mean of a specified power of the deviations of all the values of a variable in its frequency distribution. The power of the deviations indicates the order of the moment and the deviations may be from the origin (giving a moment about the origin) or from the mean (giving a moment about the mean)
Word Origin for moment
C14: from Old French, from Latin mĆmentum, from movÄre to move
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