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moment

[moh-muhnt]

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noun

an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.

the present time or any other particular time (usually preceded by the): He is busy at the moment.

a definite period or stage, as in a course of events; juncture: at this moment in history.

importance or consequence: a decision of great moment.

a particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.: His big moment came in the final game.

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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.

Philosophy.

an aspect of a thing.

Obsolete. an essential or constituent factor.

Mechanics.

a tendency to produce motion, especially about an axis.

the product of a physical quantity and its directed distance from an axis: moment of area; moment of mass.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Latin mōmentum motion, cause of motion, hence, influence, importance, essential factor, moment of time, equivalent to mō- (variant stem of movēre to move) + -mentum -ment

Synonyms
1. second, jiffy, trice, flash, twinkling. See minute¹. 4. significance, weight, gravity. See importance.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

But the populists haven't found a standard-bearer capable of taking advantage of this moment.

The practices of mapping have again become a key cultural moment.

We all know the power of waiting quietly for the right moment to pounce upon an opportunity.

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But the populists haven't found a standard-bearer capable of taking advantage of this moment.

The practices of mapping have again become a key cultural moment.

We all know the power of waiting quietly for the right moment to pounce upon an opportunity.

Be patient and ready for that magical moment when it all comes together.

And this answer was perhaps his shining moment of the day.

As the crew prepared to descend back to earth, they took a moment to reflect on being part of the final flight.

If there was ever a moment of ill-preparedness, this was it.

The subsequent arrival of other commercial media besides books didn't alter the legal importance of this moment.

There can be an awkward moment after the introducer suddenly stops and it's my turn to finally start speaking.

The government should plan defensively in case a moment for horse-trading arises.

Please submit images that accurately reflect the captured moment in time.

The moment they upgrade to a roomier shell, other crabs line up for the vacated one.

In a moment of silence to honor two men who died since the group last met a year ago, two goblets are turned upside down.

He would spend every moment on the beach if he could.

Tonight there will be a moment in human history that will never come again.

Another, however, sees precisely how ugly a moment this is.

In photography, we're always after capturing the moment.

The point is that iron does not have any magnetic moment in these compounds.

The threat to his life's work could hardly have come at a worse moment.

You'll never forget the moment you got it or who you bought it from,” she says.

It is the moment of inertia and the angular velocity that change.

Just stay in the moment and do the job the best way you know how.

If she's scored a goal, it is both the moment of the kick and the leap of celebration.

Scientists could share their experimental processes in a way that's hard to do at the moment.

The recipe had been hanging around in inventory, awaiting its moment in the sun.

And this would be equal to the product of the moment of inertia and the angular acceleration.

Reflect for a moment on how you have been persuaded.

Remember at this critical moment that all those folks have any idea of what's happening unless you tell them.

And what it lacks in color at the moment it makes up for in scent.

It was simultaneously an uh-oh moment and an ah-ha moment.

And this month has been an over-the-top publishing moment.

Sometimes it takes more than one great shot to capture a moment.

Sub-irrigated containers finally have their moment of fame.

Determining the precise moment of forgetting is essentially impossible in day-to-day life.

For me, it was a perfect moment that captured the feeling of being in this wonderful place.

One of my favorite combinations at the moment is gray as the overall neutral with accents of black, white and yellow.

The electronic maps flashing around him didn't do anything to ease the stress of the moment.

In a moment the waters disappeared, leaving a black, empty level where the populous village had been a few minutes before.

Technology has pushed the eugenic moment to the point of conception.

In an age of social networking, the company shifts the concept from a moment to be captured to a moment to be uploaded.

From the moment she saw the business plan for eBay she knew the online.

Regulators and industry have one precious moment to recapture the public's trust.

With an ecosystem under siege, every moment in this wild wonderland is one to savor.

There are many creative ways to preserve a moment lost in time, and sometimes it can happen by complete and utter.

Severe economic pressures have created a defining moment for.

Ordinarily this is when a woman would begin to cringe--the moment before her breast is smashed onto a cold x-ray platform.

He hesitated a moment to read the directions and then turned the extinguisher upside down.

Put this story down for a moment and take a look at the undergraduates around your desk, outside your office, or out on the quad.

At that moment one of the electrodes flips towards the other, causing the two to make contact.

What must have been a moment of howling wind in the desert becomes a scene of art.

People with this disease are at risk of fibrillation at any moment but especially after physical or emotional stress.

His ability to see a new and inovative way to capture a moment or event or even an image has always impacted me.

My garden is eight blocks from the beach and this plant has done well from the moment it was planted.

If you want to be zen, then stay in the freaking moment.

Many citizens agreed that it was a sad moment for the birthplace of democracy.

At the last moment both sides pulled back, and the crisis was over.

After appearing for a moment to confer with one another, the chimps split.

Wright, who died that same year, used to be the architect of the moment.

Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information.

But from the moment they did, everyone acknowledged that.

But for the moment there would be no significant market for solar cells were it not for government subsidies.

The decisive moment didn't take place in the main cluster of bees, but out at the boxes, where scouts were building up.

The moment of glacial runoff coincided with the rapid evolution of animal life.

Or, if you can't wait a moment longer to get rid of that former treasure, donate it online via.

My life has been shaped by the need to escape that moment.

No words could describe either the beauty of the place, nor the profound sadness of the moment.

Step back for a moment and look around your environment.

It can be a wonderful learning moment for her if she is willing to learn.

What a moment in the life of an eagle family when dinner arrives.

The river's water is hoarded the moment it trickles out of the mountains of.

For a stick held at one end, the moment of inertia.

He was intrigued by the mantis' ability to gauge the precise moment of attack-and then to dodge.

Every moment that our voices remain silent widens the gap between being human and being humane.

And take a moment to appreciate the adorableness of their employees.

Today marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in human history.

Arrows represented major transmission lines, each with a number showing how much juice was on the line at that moment.

One can't help but imagine the history books of the future, highlighting this moment as an example of why the decline began,.

When the moment is right a cheetah will sprint after its quarry and attempt to knock it down.

The next big moment will come when the first particle collisions occur.

But it is the chair that keeps tempting me, promising some escape into a timeless moment.

Standing side by side, the pair look slightly befuddled by the moment.

It would be great to capture this show-and-prove moment.

Yet once the hatchlings reached deeper waters, they were safe-for the moment.

What every great photo essay needs is that one moment to hang its hat on.

Moment later, and everything was under the fog's mantel.

Instead, brain activity changes from moment to moment during sleep.

It also displays their playlist and the song they are listening to at that moment so you can decide if you want to tune.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

moment (ˈməʊmənt)

—n
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
	a. a tendency to produce motion, esp rotation about a point or axis
	b. See also moment of inertia the product of a physical quantity, such as force or mass, and its distance from a fixed reference point
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 origin (giving a moment about the origin) or from the mean (giving a moment about the mean)

[C14: from Old French, from Latin mōmentum, from movēre to move]

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Word Origin & History

moment

mid-14c., "very brief portion of time, instant," in moment of time, from O.Fr. moment, from L. momentum "movement, moving power," also "instant, importance," contraction of *movimentum, from movere "to move" (see move). Some (but not OED) explain the sense evolution of the

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L. word by notion of a particle so small it would just "move" the pointer of a scale, which led to the transferred sense of "minute time division." Sense of "importance, 'weight' " is attested in English from 1520s. Phrase never a dull moment first recorded 1889 in Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat." Phrase moment of truth first recorded 1932 in Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon," from Sp. el momento de la verdad, the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight.

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Idioms & Phrases

moment

In addition to the idiom beginning with moment, also see at this point (moment); every minute (moment) counts; for the moment; have one's moments; just a minute (moment); live for the moment; never a dull moment; not for a moment; of the moment; on the spur of the moment; weak moment.