- an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
- the present time or any other particular time: He is busy at the moment.
- a definite period or stage, as in a course of events; juncture: at this moment in history.
- importance or consequence: a decision of great moment.
- a particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.: His big moment came in the final game.
- the mean or expected value of the product formed by multiplying together a set of one or more variates or variables each to a specified power.
- Philosophy.
- an aspect of a thing.
- an essential or constituent factor.
- Mechanics.
- a tendency to produce motion, especially about an axis.
- the product of a physical quantity and its directed distance from an axis: moment of area; moment of mass.
- a short indefinite period of time
- a specific instant or point in time
- the present point of time
- import, significance, or value
- physics
- a tendency to produce motion, esp rotation about a point or axis
- the product of a physical quantity, such as force or mass, and its distance from a fixed reference point
- the mean of a specified power of the deviations of all the values of a variable in its frequency distribution. The power of the deviations indicates the order of the moment and the deviations may be from the origin (giving a moment about the origin) or from the mean (giving a moment about the mean)
