moment
Noun
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is a type of: point, point in time - an instant of timesubtypes:
- climax, culmination - the decisive moment in a novel or play
- eleventh hour, last minute - the latest possible moment
- moment of truth - a crucial moment on which much depends
- moment of truth - the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull
- pinpoint - a very brief moment
- time - a suitable moment
- psychological moment - the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect
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is a type of: time - an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)subtypes: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, new york minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink - a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
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is a type of: nowadays, present - the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speechsame as: here and now, present moment
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is a type of: significance - the quality of being significantsubtypes:
- matter - (used with negation) having consequence
- hell to pay - dire consequences
same as: consequence, import -
is a type of: force - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantitysubtypes:
- moment of inertia - the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration
- moment of a couple - given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them
- dipole moment - the moment of a dipole
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referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parametersis a type of: statistic - a datum that can be represented numericallysubtypes:
- second moment - the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin
- variance - the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
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