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As a noun, moment means a brief, unspecified amount of time.
Meanings of moment
13 meaningsnoun
A brief, unspecified amount of time.
“Wait a moment, while I lock the front door.”
The smallest portion of time; an instant.
figurativeWeight or importance.
neurologyinformalA petit mal episode; such a spell.
colloquialA fit; a brief tantrum.
mathAn infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
mathA quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.
“If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment 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.”
internet slangderogatoryusually preceded by a nounAn embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.
“woman moment”
“Reddit moment”
Having important effects or influence
“decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself”
“virtue is of more moment than security”
“that result is of no consequence”
Similar: consequence, importA 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
Older and rare meanings (1)
historicalunitA definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
Ellipsis of moment of force
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).