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moment
1. a particular point in time (Freq. 86) - the moment he arrived the party began • Syn: minute, second, instant • Derivationally related forms: instantaneous (for: instant) • Hypernyms: point, point in time • Hyponyms: climax, culmination, eleventh hour, last minute, moment of truth, pinpoint, time, psychological moment 2. an indefinitely short time (Freq. 73) - wait just a moment - in a mo - it only takes a minute - in just a bit • Syn: mo, minute, second, bit • Derivationally related forms: momentary, momentaneous • Usage Domain: Britain (for: mo) • Hypernyms: time • Hyponyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute 3. at this time (Freq. 1) - the disappointments of the here and now - she is studying at the moment • Syn: here and now, present moment • Hypernyms: present, nowadays 4. having important effects or influence (Freq. 1) - decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself - virtue is of more moment than security - that result is of no consequence • Syn: consequence, import • Ant: inconsequence (for: consequence) • Derivationally related forms: momentous, consequential (for: consequence) • Hypernyms: significance • Hyponyms: matter, hell to pay 5. a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) • Hypernyms: force • Hyponyms: moment of inertia, moment of a couple, dipole moment 6. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value • Topics: statistics • Hypernyms: statistic • Hyponyms: second moment, variance
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