moment
Meaning
n 1: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the partybegan" [syn: minute, second, instant]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only
takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: minute, second,
bit]
3: at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now";
"she is studying at the moment" [syn: here and now, present
moment]
4: having important effects or influence; "decisions of great
consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is
of more moment that security" [syn: consequence, import]
[ant: inconsequence]
5: the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the
distance between its opposing forces
6: the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of
the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value