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English noun: moment | |||
| 1. | moment (time) a particular point in time | ||
| Samples | The moment he arrived the party began. | ||
| Synonyms | instant, minute, second | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | point, point in time | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | climax, culmination, eleventh hour, last minute, moment of truth, moment of truth, pinpoint, psychological moment, time | ||
| 2. | moment (time) an indefinitely short time | ||
| Samples | Wait just a moment. In a mo. It only takes a minute. In just a bit. | ||
| Synonyms | bit, minute, mo, second | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | time | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink | ||
| 3. | moment (time) at this time | ||
| Samples | The disappointments of the here and now. She is studying at the moment. | ||
| Synonyms | here and now, present moment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | nowadays, present | ||
| 4. | moment (attribute) having important effects or influence | ||
| Samples | Decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself. Virtue is of more moment than security. That result is of no consequence. | ||
| Synonyms | consequence, import | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | significance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | hell to pay, matter | ||
| Antonyms | inconsequence | ||
| 5. | moment (phenomenon) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | force | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dipole moment, moment of a couple, moment of inertia | ||
| 6. | moment (cognition) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | statistic | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | second moment, variance | ||
| Domain category | statistics | ||
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