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moment

[ moh-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an indefinitely short period of time; instant:

    I'll be with you in a moment.

    Synonyms: twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, second

  2. Usually the moment. the present time or any other particular time:

    He is busy at the moment.

  3. a definite period or stage, as in a course of events; juncture:

    at this moment in history.

  4. importance or consequence:

    a decision of great moment.

    Synonyms: momentousness, magnitude, weight, significance

  5. a particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.:

    His big moment came in the final game.

  6. Statistics. the mean or expected value of the product formed by multiplying together a set of one or more variates or variables each to a specified power.
  7. Philosophy.
    1. an aspect of a thing.
    2. Obsolete. an essential or constituent factor.
  8. Mechanics.
    1. a tendency to produce motion, especially about an axis.
    2. the product of a physical quantity and its directed distance from an axis:

      moment of area; moment of mass.



moment

/ ˈməʊmənt /

noun

  1. a short indefinite period of time

    he'll be here in a moment

  2. a specific instant or point in time

    at that moment the doorbell rang

  3. the moment
    the present point of time

    at the moment it's fine

  4. import, significance, or value

    a man of moment

  5. physics
    1. a tendency to produce motion, esp rotation about a point or axis
    2. the product of a physical quantity, such as force or mass, and its distance from a fixed reference point See also moment of inertia
  6. 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 origen (giving a moment about the origen ) or from the mean (giving a moment about the mean )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of moment1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, Middle French, from Latin mōmentum “motion, cause of motion,” hence, “influence, importance, essential factor, moment of time,” from movimentum (unattested), equivalent to mō- (variant stem of the verb movēre move ) + -mentum -ment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of moment1

C14: from Old French, from Latin mōmentum, from movēre to move
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Example Sentences

Nasa estimates there are more than 6,000 tonnes of space debris in orbit at the moment.

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"We could be having our Lionesses moment," Jessica says, referring to the success of England's women's football team.

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He met Adam while on leave, after finding the courage to go to a gay bar for the first time - and at that moment, he says, "life turned from monochrome to technicolour".

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Board games can take their minds off those unanswerable questions, a least for a moment.

On the spur of the moment, I walked down to the small shop, peeked in and saw a woman who matched the description.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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