momentum
noun
force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events.
momenta
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pluralof momentum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When particles with intermediate momenta emerge from this plasma, they can inherit collective motion from the quarks that make them up.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
But it rides on a brilliantly tuned air suspension with adaptive dampers to tie down rebellious momenta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Physicists once assumed that if you inverted all the particles’ positions—swapping left and right, up and down, forward and back—and reverse all their momenta, the universe should work just the same.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 5, 2021
The set of all the particles' positions and momenta we call the steam's microstate.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020
The change does not consist of these momenta, but is generated or produced by them as their effect.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
