moment in English

noun

1

a very brief period of time.

she was silent for a moment before replying

synonyms: little while, short time, bit, minute, instant, second, split second, sec

2

importance.

the issues were of little moment to the electorate

synonyms: importance, import, significance, consequence, note, weight, concern, interest

3

a turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.

The team used samarium, an element whose spin and orbital moments are opposite and vary with temperature.

4

a quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first, second, third, or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from some given value, typically mean or zero. The first moment is the mean, the second moment the variance, the third moment the skew, and the fourth moment the kurtosis.

It follows from substitution and rearrangement that the expected value of the second moment of y about x is [(1 / k) + F ST].

noun

little while, short time, bit, minute, instant, second, split second, sec
point (in time), time, hour
importance, import, significance, consequence, note, weight, concern, interest
minute, second, instant
import, consequence
mo, minute, bit, second
present moment, here and now

Use "moment" in a sentence

1. One moment there, one moment gone.

2. Moment of reflection

3. One moment, please.

4. For the moment.

5. Only a moment.

6. In a moment.

7. Assuming for a moment...

8. Not at the moment.

9. the dipole moment; and

10. I'm going to show you that moment and all the insights of that moment.

11. It's a wonderful moment.

12. For a moment he hesitated, savouring the moment, then centred the metal spike and pushed.

13. Average happiness is, of course, inadequate, because it doesn't speak to the moment- by- moment experience, and so this is what we think it looks like when you layer in moment- to- moment experience.

14. The Anatomy of a Moment.

15. You worry about a moment.

16. He acted on the moment.

17. Not at the moment, perhaps.

18. Just a moment, my dear.

19. He hesitated, savouring the moment.

20. It is a restless moment.

21. That was a critical moment.

22. Finally, though, the moment came.

23. Just give me a moment.

24. a moment of extraordinary poignancy.

25. The focus of the moment of meeting model of change is on the moment-to-moment exchanges between the two partners in the treatment dyad.

26. Give me a moment, Sheriff.

27. For a moment I hesitated.

28. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

29. The moment Van Leeuwenhoek gazed into his pond water was the moment that microbiology was born.

30. The simulation algorithms of wave high, yaw force, rolling moment and sway moment were put forward.

31. It was a eureka moment.

32. I won't waste another moment.

33. We'll return in a moment.

34. Indubitably, something of moment happened.

35. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going.

36. This moment nap, you will have a dream. But this moment study, you will interpret a dream.

37. The luminous star streaks were paling against a milky sky, whose brilliance in-creased moment by moment.

38. The shocking moment when the Cyclist …

39. Transgender Athletes are having a moment

40. This is always a tense moment.

41. There was silence for a moment.

42. What was your most embarrassing moment?

43. Trying to find the right moment.

44. It was a really scary moment.

45. He became reverent in a moment.

46. You've come at the right moment.

47. They arrived at an inopportune moment.

48. But this is a propitious moment.

49. A moment of reverential silence, please.

50. This is a self-Actualizing moment.