Thesaurus: moment

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1. n. A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
2. n. Impulsive power; force; momentum.
3. n. Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.
4. n. An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
5. n. An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
6. n. Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
7. n. a particular point in time
8. n. an indefinitely short time
9. n. at this time
10. n. having important effects or influence
11. n. a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
12. n. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value