Noun: moment mow-munt- A particular point in time
"the moment he arrived the party began"; - minute, second, instant - An indefinitely short time
"wait just a moment"; - mo, minute, second, bit - At this time
"she is studying at the moment"; "the disappointments of the present moment"; - here and now, present moment - Having important effects or influence
"virtue is of more moment than security"; - consequence, import - A turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- (statistics) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
Derived forms: moments Type of: force, nowadays, point, point in time, present, significance, statistic, time Encyclopedia: Moment |