Defenition of the word moment
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Defenition of the word moment
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"
- at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
- the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces
- an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
- a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
- having important effects or influence
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- at this time
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
Synonyms for the word moment
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- bit
- consequence
- flash
- here and now
- import
- instant
- jiffy
- minute
- present moment
- second
- split second
Similar words in the moment
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- moment
- moment's
- momentary
- momentous
- momentousness
- momentousness's
Meronymys for the word moment
Hyponyms for the word moment
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- blink of an eye
- climax
- culmination
- dipole moment
- eleventh hour
- flash
- heartbeat
- hell to pay
- instant
- jiffy
- last minute
- matter
- moment of a couple
- moment of inertia
- moment of truth
- New York minute
- pinpoint
- psychological moment
- second moment
- split second
- time
- trice
- twinkling
- variance
- wink
Hypernyms for the word moment
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- force
- nowadays
- point
- point in time
- present
- significance
- statistic
- time
Antonyms for the word moment
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