Moment

Noun

 * 1) A brief, unspecified amount of time.
 * Wait up a moment, while I lock the front door.
 * 1) The smallest portion of time; an instant.
 * 2) Weight or importance.
 * 3) * 1597, Wm. Shakespeare, Richard III, 3,7,67:
 * In deep designs, in matter of great moment, / No less importing than our general good.
 * 1) * 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Second Stain’ (Norton 2005, p.1192)
 * The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.
 * 1)  The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.  Also called moment of force.
 * 2)  A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
 * 3)  A petit mal episode; such a spell.
 * 4)  A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.

Synonyms

 * : moment of force
 * : moment of force

Derived terms

 * at a moment's notice
 * at the moment
 * at this moment in time
 * blonde moment
 * branding moment
 * dipole moment
 * driveway moment
 * eureka moment
 * London moment
 * magnetic moment
 * moist moment
 * momentarily
 * momentary
 * moment of force


 * moment of inertia
 * moment of silence
 * moment of truth
 * on the spur of the moment
 * polar moment of inertia
 * second moment of area
 * second moment of inertia
 * senior moment
 * seismic moment
 * single-minded branding moment
 * spur-of-the-moment
 * spur of the moment
 * tumbleweed moment

Related terms

 * torque

Adjectives for Moment
decisive; spiteful; uncertain; voluptuous; critical; silent; lyrical; ludicrous; tragic; disagreeable; pictorial; appalling; musing; inspired; leisure; awful; microscopical; infinite; extraordinary; propitious; enlightened; proud; willful; little; heavier; immortal; delightful; high-tide; opportune; prolonged; gravest; radiant; usurped; bitter; highest; prearranged; charming; sulky; brisk; solemn; intuitive; giddy; whirling; supreme; omnipotent; inauspicious; unguarded; precise; culminating; single; blemished; gayest; rare; cantabile; shining; psychological; undecided; spellbound; earliest; vital; dreamy; affected; briefest; dramatic; heartrending; occasional; embittering; cooler; appointed; pleasant; illuminated; waking; breathless; hungry; ardent; lessened; important; flashing; crucial; theoretical; fading; poignant; fleeting; fateful; exalted; miraculous; pregnant; hostile; erotic; affectionate; necessary; sunny; impressive; reconciling; precise; tense; leisure; staggering; lofty; intimate; startled; inspirational; fulile; practical; careless; sardonic; skinned; intent; delightful; lonely; golden; memoried; particular; few (pi); confused; swift; bold; brief; natal; troubled; deplorable; awful; sickening; inexpressible; tingling; cheerless; unnecessary; sunny.

Verbs for Moment
acclaim—; anticipate—; consume in—; endure—; pause for—; relish—; seize—; snatch—; squeeze—dry; —flits by; —thrills; —troubles.

Thesaurus
a breath, abundant year, academic year, accent, advantage, annum, ascendancy, authority, avail, bissextile year, bit, breath, breathing, calendar month, calendar year, century, charisma, charm, clout, common year, compulsion, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, control, coup, crack, credit, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dominance, domination, drive, driving force, effect, eminence, emphasis, enchantment, esteem, excellence, fateful moment, favor, fiscal year, flash, force, fortnight, good feeling, gravity, greatness, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, high order, high rank, hold, hour, impellent, impelling force, impetus, import, importance, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incidental power, incitement, influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, instant, interest, interval, irresistible force, jiff, jiffy, juncture, kairos, leadership, leap year, leverage, little, little bit, little while, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, magnetism, magnitude, man-hour, mark, mastery, materiality, merit, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment of truth, momentousness, momentum, month, moon, motive power, no time, note, pair of winks, paramountcy, period, personality, persuasion, pith, point, potency, power, precedence, predominance, preeminence, pregnant moment, preponderance, pressure, prestige, primacy, priority, profit, prominence, propulsion, psychological moment, purchase, quarter, quinquennium, rank, regular year, reign, repute, rule, say, season, sec, second, self-importance, semester, seniority, seriousness, session, shake, short spell, short time, sidereal year, significance, signification, small space, solar year, space, span, spell, split second, spurt, stage, stature, stress, stretch, stroke, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, sun, superiority, supremacy, sway, term, thrust, tick, time, time lag, trice, trimester, twelvemonth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, upper hand, use, value, week, weekday, weight, weightiness, while, whip hand, wink, worth, year

Etymology
From moment, from  momentum.

Translations

 * Albanian:, ,
 * Arabic: لحظة
 * Armenian: պահ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 時刻, 时刻, ,  瞬间, ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , oogwenk,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, , tuokio
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მომენტი (momenti), წუთი (ts‘ut‘i), მეყი (meq‘i)
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: (stigmí)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: momento
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ភ្លែត
 * Korean: 순간
 * Lao: ບຶດດຽວ, ບັດ
 * Latin: punctum, momentum temporis
 * Latvian:, ,


 * Lithuanian: akimirka
 * Luxembourgish: Abléck
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian: агшин
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: augeblikk, augneblunk
 * Old English: brachwíle
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, mòmaid
 * Serbian:, časak
 * Serbo-Croatian: tren, trenutak, čas, časak, hip, moment
 * Slovak:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kitambo (nc 7/8), nukta (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish: momang, ,
 * Thai: ครู่, เดี๋ยว
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: پل
 * Vietnamese: chốc lát, khẩn yếu, một chút, một lát, việc quan trọng
 * Welsh: Hyn o bryd
 * Yiddish: אויגנבליק, מאָמענט


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Lao: ດຽວ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tidspunkt,
 * Nynorsk: tidspunkt, augeblikk, aubeblink


 * Scottish Gaelic: mòmaid
 * Volapük: timül


 * Bulgarian: момент на сила
 * Catalan: moment de força
 * Chinese: 力矩 (lì jǔ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: momanto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: モーメント (mōmento)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: moment siły
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (mohmen)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: mô men


 * : 刻 (kè)

Anagrams

 * montem

Noun

 * 1) moment specific instant or time
 * el català, malgrat tot, viu un moment de glòria efímera durant els darrers anys del segle XVIII i primers del XIX.
 * Catalan, in spite of everything, had a moment of glory for the last years of the 18th Century and the first ones of the 19th.

Etymology
momentum

Noun

 * 1) moment (very brief period of time)

Etymology
momentum

Noun

 * 1)  short period of time
 * 2) a while
 * Ça fait un moment que je l'attends  - I've been waiting for him for a while

Etymology
From momentum:

Derived terms

 * pour le moment
 * au moment où

Noun

 * 1) moment

Derived terms

 * im Moment

Noun

 * 1)  momentum

Noun

 * 1)  moment
 * moment bezwładności – moment of inertia
 * moment gnący / moment zginający – bending moment
 * moment pędu – angular momentum, moment of momentum
 * moment siły – moment of force
 * moment skręcający – twisting moment

Noun

 * 1) moment

Etymology
momentum