[ UK /mˈə‍ʊmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈmoʊmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. having important effects or influence
    that result is of no consequence
    virtue is of more moment than security
    decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself
  2. at this time
    she is studying at the moment
    the disappointments of the here and now
  3. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
  4. an indefinitely short time
    in just a bit
    wait just a moment
    it only takes a minute
    in a mo
  5. a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
  6. a particular point in time
    the moment he arrived the party began
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How To Use moment In A Sentence

  • She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
  • When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
  • I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
  • Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
  • For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
  • For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
  • You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
  • But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
  • I sat for a moment, wondering what on earth Kip would have done to me once he learned - if he did not already know - that it was I who snitched, when something stung the side of my face a bit.
  • The truly poignant moments were those that followed. Times, Sunday Times
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