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See also:Moment

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmoment, fromOld Frenchmoment, fromLatinmōmentum.Doublet ofmomentum andmovement.

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Noun

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moment (countable anduncountable,pluralmoments)

  1. Aparticularpoint, or relativelysmallregion.
    1. A particular point ofspace; aspot.
      Synonyms:point,spot
    2. A particular point oftime; aninstant.
      Synonyms:instant,minute;see alsoThesaurus:point in time
      • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
        Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious everymoment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
      • 1976, Richard Duprey,Duel on the Wind , part 4, chapter 1:
        "You know, we all have our own lives to live. Now and then we get confused, we become weak and vulnerable. We have to look around for help. Sometimes we get lucky and there's someone who loves us to support us, to help us along. We have a right, being human, to thosemoments of weakness. We have a right to get confused and ask for help. [...] But when that help is offered and accepted, we don't have a right to remain confused forever, to keep those who help us standing by in a kind of limbo..."
  2. Abrief, unspecified amount oftime.
    Synonyms:stound,instant,trice;see alsoThesaurus:moment
    Wait amoment, while I lock the front door.
  3. (figurative)Weight orimportance.
    • c.1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene vii], line67:
      In deep designs, in matter of greatmoment, / No less importing than our general good.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […],→OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag),page[176]:
      However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſsMoment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
    • 1904,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Adventure of the Second Stain, Norton, published2005, page1192:
      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 utmostmoment.
    • 1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, inRailway Magazine, page234:
      As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of littlemoment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.
    • 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, inRailway Magazine, number600, page274:
      Britannia therefore has the advantage over only two classes, the rebuilt "Scots" and the "V2s", and in only two respects, maximum axle load (which is important) and weight of tender (which is of littlemoment).
  4. (physics, mechanics)Ellipsis ofmoment of force.
    Synonym:torque
  5. (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of apoint, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of anhour.
  6. (neurology, informal) Apetit mal episode; such aspell.
  7. (colloquial) Afit; a brieftantrum.
  8. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
  9. (mathematics) Aquantitativemeasure of theshape of aset ofpoints.
    If the points represent mass, then the zerothmoment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia.
  10. (Internetslang, frequently derogatory, usually preceded by a noun) Anembarrassing event, supposed to becharacteristic of someperson,group, orsituation.
    womanmoment
    Redditmoment

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Derived terms

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Translations

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very brief period of time
moment in time
moment of force

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References

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  • 1897Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v 3 p 3174. ("The smallest portion of time; an instant." is a direct quote from this Dictionary.)

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinmōmentum.

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Noun

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moment m (pluralmoments)

  1. moment(specific instant or time)
    […] el català, malgrat tot, viu unmoment de glòria efímera durant els darrers anys del segle XVIII i primers del XIX.
    Catalan, in spite of everything, had amoment of ephemeral glory in the last years of the 18th century and the first ones of the 19th.

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Czech

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Noun

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moment m inan

  1. moment(specific instant or time)

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Declension ofmoment (hard masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativemomentmomenty
genitivemomentumomentů
dativemomentumomentům
accusativemomentmomenty
vocativemomentemomenty
locativemomentě,momentumomentech
instrumentalmomentemmomenty

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Further reading

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  • “moment”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
  • “moment”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Dutchmoment, fromMiddle Frenchmoment, fromLatinmomentum.

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moment n (pluralmomenten,diminutivemomentje n)

  1. moment (very brief period of time)
    Synonym:ogenblik
  2. (physics)moment of force,moment
    Synonym:krachtmoment

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French

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Etymology

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FromLatinmōmentum.

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Noun

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moment m (pluralmoments)

  1. moment(point in time)
  2. moment(short period of time)
  3. awhile
    Ça fait unmoment que je l’attends
    I've been waiting for him for a while
  4. (physics, mechanics)moment,momentum

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Friulian

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Etymology

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FromLatinmōmentum.

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moment m (pluralmoments)

  1. moment,instant

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromLatinmomentum, frommovere.

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moment n (definite singularmomentet,indefinite pluralmoment,definite pluralmomenta)

  1. element,variable, contributing factor or circumstance
    Det er mangemoment som spelar inn her.
    There are manyvariables at play here.
  2. (physics)moment of force

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Occitan

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Etymology

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FromLatinmōmentum.

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moment m (pluralmoments)

  1. moment

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinmōmentum.[1][2][3] First attested in 1592.[4]

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Noun

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moment m inan (diminutivemomencik)

  1. moment(short period of time)
    Synonym:chwila
  2. moment(specific point or period in time)
    Synonym:chwila
  3. moment(short period of development or continuance of something) [withw(+locative)‘in what’]
  4. (physics)moment(turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation)
    moment bezwładności ―moment of inertia
    moment gnący /moment zginający ―bendingmoment
    moment pędu ―angular momentum,moment of momentum
    moment siły ―moment of force
    moment skręcający ―twistingmoment
  5. (film, humorous, television)sex scene(segment in a movie in which characters have sex)
  6. (obsolete, mathematics)moment(infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement)

Declension

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Declension ofmoment
singularplural
nominativemomentmomenty
genitivemomentumomentów
dativemomentowimomentom
accusativemomentmomenty
instrumentalmomentemmomentami
locativemomenciemomentach
vocativemomenciemomenty

Interjection

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moment

  1. (colloquial)wait a minute,wait a moment,wait a second(used when the speaker expects to refrain from speaking or acting for a short time)
    Synonyms:chwila,chwila moment,chwileczkę,momencik

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Trivia

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According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),moment is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 16 times in essays, 37 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 91 times, making it the 701st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

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  1. ^Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “moment”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “moment”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
  3. ^Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “moment”, inSłownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa:PWN
  4. ^Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “moment”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. ^Ida Kurcz (1990) “moment”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page253

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchmoment, fromLatinmōmentum.

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Noun

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moment n (pluralmomente)

  1. moment(brief length of time)
    demoment ―momentary
    pentru unmoment ―for amoment
  2. moment(definite point in time)
    înmomentul de față ―at the presentmoment
  3. thetime, the rightmoment
    Nu emomentul pentru așa ceva.
    Now’s not thetime for such things.
    A sositmomentul.
    Thetime has come.
  4. (mechanics, physics)moment
  5. short literarycomposition which captures an episode ofdaily life, a genre notably cultivated byIon Luca Caragiale

Declension

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Declension ofmoment
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativemomentmomentulmomentemomentele
genitive-dativemomentmomentuluimomentemomentelor
vocativemomentulemomentelor

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Swedish

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Etymology

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FromLatinmomentum.

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moment n

  1. astep in aprocess
    Nästamoment blir att föra in stavarna i kärnreaktorn
    The nextstep will be to insert the rods into the nuclear reactor
    ett kritisktmoment
    a criticalstep
    hinderbanans armgångsmoment
    the monkey barssection of the obstacle course (the monkey barsstep in the process of getting through the obstacle course)
  2. an independentpart of some (abstract) whole; anelement, afactor
  3. (physics)moment

Declension

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Declension ofmoment
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemomentmoments
definitemomentetmomentets
pluralindefinitemomentmoments
definitemomentenmomentens

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Welsh

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moment m (pluralmomentau)

  1. (physics)moment

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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofmoment
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
momentfomentunchangedunchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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