Dictionary Definition
moment
Noun
1 a particular point in time; "the moment he
arrived the party began" [syn: minute, second, instant]
2 an indefinitely short time; "wait just a
moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: minute, second, bit]
3 at this time; "the disappointments of the here
and now"; "she is studying at the moment" [syn: here and
now, present
moment]
4 having important effects or influence;
"decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself";
"virtue is of more moment that security" [syn: consequence, import] [ant: inconsequence]
5 the moment of a couple is the product of its
force and the distance between its opposing forces
6 the n-th moment of a distribution is the
expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed
value
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A brief, unspecified
amount of time.
- Wait up a moment, while I lock the front door.
- Weight or importance.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Second Stain’
(Norton 2005, p.1192)
- The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Second Stain’
(Norton 2005, p.1192)
- The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.
- A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
- A petit mal, a spell.
- A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
Synonyms
Translations
instant of time
- trreq Albanian
- Arabic:
- trreq Armenian
- Chinese: 时候 (shíhòu)
- trreq Croatian
- Czech: okamžik
- Danish: øjeblik
- Dutch: ogenblik, moment, oogwenk, tijdstip
- Esperanto: momento
- Estonian: hetk
- Finnish: hetki
- French: instant, moment
- Georgian: მომენტი (momenti), წუთი (ts‘ut‘i), მეყი (meq‘i)
- German: Augenblick, Moment, Zeitpunkt
- Greek: στιγμή (stigmí)
- trreq Hebrew
- trreq Hindi
- Hungarian: pillanat
- Icelandic: augnablik
- Indonesian: saat
- Italian: momento
- Japanese: 瞬間 (しゅんかん, shunkan)
- Khmer: (plairt)
- Korean: 순간 (sun-gan)
- trreq Lao
- Latin: punctum , momentum temporis
- trreq Latvian
- Lithuanian: akimirka g Lithuanian
- trreq Maltese
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Norwegian
- trreq Old English
- trreq Persian
- Polish: chwila
- Portuguese: instante, momento
- trreq Romanian
- Russian: момент
- Serbian: trenutak, časak
- trreq Slovak
- Slovene: trenutek
- Spanish: momento
- Swahili: kitambo (nc 7/8), nukta (nc 9/10)
- Swedish: momang, ögonblick, moment
- Thai: (krôo), (dĭeow)
- trreq Turkish
- trreq Vietnamese
- trreq Welsh
- Yiddish: אויגנבליק (oygnblik) , מאָמענט (moment)
moment of force
- Bulgarian: момент на сила
- Catalan: moment de força
- Chinese: 力矩 (lì jǔ)
- Czech: moment síly
- Dutch: moment
- Esperanto: momanto
- Finnish: momentti
- French: moment
- German: Moment
- Greek: ροπή
- Japanese: モーメント (mōmento)
- Norwegian: moment
- Polish: moment siły
- Portuguese: momento
- Russian: момент силы
- Slovene: navor
- Swedish: moment
- Thai: (mohmen)
- Turkish: moment
- Vietnamese: mô men
Etymology
momentumNoun
Dutch
Etymology
momentumNoun
French
Etymology
From momentum.Pronunciation
Noun
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Romanian
Etymology
momentumPronunciation
Noun
Declension
Extensive Definition
Moment may refer to:
Business
- Moment (magazine), an American Jewish publication
Music
- Moment (album), an album by SPEED
- Moment (Stockhausen), a musical concept developed by Karlheinz Stockhausen
- "Moment" (Aiden song), a single by Aiden
- "Moments" (song), a single by Ayumi Hamasaki
- "Moments" (Emerson Drive song), a single by Emerson Drive
- Moments (Fatali album), an album by Fatali
- Cheese Flavoured Moments, a brand name snack food from Walkers
- Moment, the Italian brand name of ibuprofen
Science
- Moment (physics)
- Moment (mathematics), used in probability theory and statistics
- Image moments, statistical properties of an image
Technology
- MOMENT - Monitoring and Measurement in the Next Generation Technologies, a European FP7 framework project about SOA oriented Monitoring and Measurement in ICT Networks
Time
See also
moment in German: Moment
moment in Spanish: Momento
moment in French: Moment
moment in Galician: Momento
moment in Croatian: Moment (razdvojba)
moment in Italian: Momento
moment in Lithuanian: Momentas
moment in Dutch: Moment
moment in Norwegian: Moment
moment in Polish: Pęd
moment in Portuguese: Momento
moment in Russian: Момент
moment in Turkish: Moment
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a breath, abundant year, academic year, accent, advantage, annum, ascendancy, authority, avail, bissextile year, bit, breath, breathing, calendar month,
calendar year, century,
charisma, charm, clout, common year, compulsion, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality,
consideration,
control, coup, crack, credit, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year,
dominance, domination, drive, driving force, effect, eminence, emphasis, enchantment, esteem, excellence, fateful moment,
favor, fiscal year,
flash, force, fortnight, good feeling,
gravity, greatness, half a jiffy, half
a mo, half a second, half a shake, high order, high rank, hold, hour, impellent, impelling force,
impetus, import, importance, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incidental power,
incitement, influence, influentiality, influentialness,
insinuation,
instant, interest, interval, irresistible force,
jiff, jiffy, juncture, kairos, leadership, leap year,
leverage, little, little bit, little while,
lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, magnetism, magnitude, man-hour, mark, mastery, materiality, merit, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment of truth, momentousness, momentum, month, moon, motive power, no time,
note, pair of winks,
paramountcy,
period, personality, persuasion, pith, point, potency, power, precedence, predominance, preeminence, pregnant
moment, preponderance, pressure, prestige, primacy, priority, profit, prominence, propulsion, psychological
moment, purchase,
quarter, quinquennium, rank, regular year, reign, repute, rule, say, season, sec, second, self-importance, semester, seniority, seriousness, session, shake, short spell, short time,
sidereal year, significance, signification, small
space, solar year, space,
span, spell, split second, spurt, stage, stature, stress, stretch, stroke, suasion, subtle influence,
suggestion, sun, superiority, supremacy, sway, term, thrust, tick, time, time lag, trice, trimester, twelvemonth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, upper hand,
use, value, week, weekday, weight, weightiness, while, whip hand, wink, worth, year