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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

... thinking as he had never thought before. The scales fell from his eyes, and from the kindly gentle Southern man of knightly instincts and gallant achievements was born—the "pestiferous Radical." He did not hesitate to avow his conviction, and from that moment there was around him a wall of fire. He had lost his rank, degraded his caste, and fallen from his high estate. From and after that moment he was held unworthy to wear the proud appellation, "A ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... moment after I had the other side of the question brought forcibly to my mind. In an obscure corner was a coarse wooden shrine, painted red, in which was a doll dressed up in spangles and tinsel, to represent the Virgin, and hung round with little waxen effigies ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... After this moment the accounts are not to be reconciled. Captain Walke, of the Carondelet, says that he continued the action broadside to broadside for some minutes, till the Arkansas drew ahead, and then followed her with his bow guns until, his wheel-ropes being cut, he ran into the bank, while the ram continued ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

... crashing blows and demands for admission. This went on for two or three hours, and when things had quieted down and we were thinking of emerging from the stifling hut for fresh air, a shot rang out on the stillness. We seized our rifles, and not a moment too soon, for simultaneously the door flew open with a crash and half a dozen men reeled into the room. One of them brandished a Winchester, but I noticed with relief that the rest of the intruders were unarmed. The face of another whom ...

— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt

... this: Do these credulous people suppose that the event would have been otherwise, had the young candidate not prayed? Do they suppose that the Deity would positively have snatched away the prize at the last moment, and given it to another, simply because he had not been consulted in the matter? If they do, then we must confess our ideals of the Divine are very different ...

— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

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