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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

... a good scheme," Betty said slowly. "But oh, my children! Do you think for one moment that the Dorothys will ...

— Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School • Dorothy Whitehill

... my arrival to Stroeve, and when I rang the bell of his studio, on opening the door himself, for a moment he did not know me. Then he gave a cry of delighted surprise and drew me in. It was charming to be welcomed with so much eagerness. His wife was seated near the stove at her sewing, and she rose as I ...

— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham

... replied: "He will be none the less innocent, if he be innocent, when I have had my full say." You can guess from this sample what opposition we had to face, and how we could not avoid giving offence,—but that only lasted a short time, for though at the moment a loyal conduct of a case may offend those whom one is opposing, in the end it wins even ...

— The Letters of the Younger Pliny - Title: The Letters of Pliny the Younger - - Series 1, Volume 1 • Pliny the Younger

... go to fair, or feast, or waddin', The crone's in the sulks, for she 'd fain be gaddin', A wink to the girls sets her soul a-maddin', She 's a shame and sorrow to me. If I stop at the hostel to buy me a gill, Or with a good fellow a moment sit still, Her fist it is clench'd, and is ready to kill, And the talk of the clachan ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... universe. To these immensities all other beings are audacious who dream of being even comfortable and obscure—happiness would be a presumption; as though Fate intended each living human being at some one moment to have the whole world to himself. And who shall cry out against that egotism with which all ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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