moment

[Mo·ment]

A moment is a particular point in time. Some moments you remember forever: like the moment you earned your driver's license or the moment you learned that you passed your organic chemistry class.

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A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

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having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"

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the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value

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the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces

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at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"

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a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"

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an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"

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A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

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Impulsive power; force; momentum.

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Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.

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An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.

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An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

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Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.

Moment

Mo"ment , n. [F. moment, L. momentum, for movimentum movement, motion, moment, fr. movere to move. See Move, and cf. Momentum, Movement.] 1. A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

2. Impulsive power; force; momentum.

The moments or quantities of motion in bodies.

Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will.

3. Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.

Matters of great moment.

It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others.

4. An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance. 5. (Math.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. [Obs.] 6. (Mech.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis. Moment of a couple (Mech.), the product of either of its forces into the perpendicular distance between them. -- Moment of a force. (Mech.) (a) With respect to a point, the product of the intensity of the force into the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of direction of the force. (b) With respect to a line, the product of that component of the force which is perpendicular to the plane passing through the line and the point of application of the force, into the shortest distance between the line and this point. (c) With respect to a plane that is parallel to the force, the product of the force into the perpendicular distance of its point of application from the plane. -- Moment of inertia, of a rotating body, the sum of the mass of each particle of matter of the body into the square of its distance from the axis of rotation; -- called also moment of rotation and moment of the mass. -- Statical moment, the product of a force into its leverage; the same as moment of a force with respect to a point, line, etc. -- Virtual moment. See under Virtual. Syn. -- Instant; twinkling; consequence; weight; force; value; consideration; signification; avail.

A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.

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Usage Examples

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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Other Usage Examples

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.