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Moment

noun

A particular point in time. Synonyms: instant, minute, second.

An indefinitely short time. Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, second. "In a mo" , "It only takes a minute" , "In just a bit"

At this time. Synonyms: here and now, present moment. "She is studying at the moment"

Having important effects or influence. Synonyms: consequence, import. "Virtue is of more moment than security" , "That result is of no consequence"

A turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force).

The n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value.

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"Moment" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ethiopia. Another act in his life that has escaped the casual biographer was his effort to purchase the Philippines from Spain. Now you can see why he seized upon the Congo as a colonizing possibility the moment he read Henry M. Stanley's first article about it in ...

— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... he was graduated from Oak Park High School and entered the University of Wisconsin at the exact moment when a number of imported Swiss professors in this great dairy state began teaching their students how to ...

— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown

... a good day, O holy father, Neferhotep, pure of hands! No works of buildings in Egypt could avail, his resting-place is all his wealth ...(542) Let me return to know what remaineth of him! Not the least moment could be added to his life, (when he went to) the realm of eternity. Those who have magazines full of bread to spend, even they shall encounter the hour of a last end. The moment of that day will diminish the valor ...

— Egyptian Literature

... massacre were so excited that they could not tell how many people had been killed or how many wagons were in the train. They said that the train had just broke camp and started on their way when they heard the report of guns at the head of the train, and in a moment more the Indians came pouring down upon them, shooting everyone they met with their bows and arrows. "And," continued they, "when we saw them shooting and yelling, we broke and run before they got to us, ...

— Chief of Scouts • W.F. Drannan

... "One moment," said the official; "I must here leave you for the present, Mr. Bumpkin; we are not allowed to give evidence in Criminal Courts any more than Her Majesty's Judges themselves; we are a part of the Court. But, besides all that, I did not see ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

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