MOMENT
\mˈə͡ʊmənt], \mˈəʊmənt], \m_ˈəʊ_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of MOMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces
By Princeton University
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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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the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
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Impulsive power; force; momentum.
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An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
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An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
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Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
By Oddity Software
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A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
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Impulsive power; force; momentum.
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An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
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An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
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Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
By Noah Webster.
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The smallest portion of time; an instant; importance; as, affairs of great moment; the measure of a force by its effect in motion around a central point, as in a wheel.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Moving cause or force: importance in effect: value: the smallest portion of time in which a movement can be made: an instant: (mech.) the moment of a force about a point is the product of the force and the perpendicular on its line of action from the point.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The most minute part of time; instant; importance; factor. Moment of a force, the product of the force and the perpendicular from where it acts to the line of application.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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