moment
Nouns
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(n) a particular point in time
- the moment he arrived the party began
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(n) an indefinitely short time
- wait just a moment
- in a mo
- it only takes a minute
- in just a bit
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(n) at this time
- the disappointments of the here and now
- she is studying at the moment
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(n) having important effects or influence
- decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself
- virtue is of more moment than security
- that result is of no consequence
- (n) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- (n) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value