[
UK
/məʊmˈɛntəm/
]
[ US /moʊˈmɛntəm/ ]
[ US /moʊˈmɛntəm/ ]
NOUN
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an impelling force or strength
the car's momentum carried it off the road -
the product of a body's mass and its velocity
the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities
How To Use momentum In A Sentence
- The pace of new auto loans also lost momentum from a month earlier.
- A cloud of gas that is gravitationally attracted to the black hole can have a net angular momentum oppositely directed from that of the black hole. Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today
- The model involved in particle charging equation, electric field and charge conservation equation, gas conservation equations of mass and momentum, particle mass and momentum equation.
- Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
- Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
- angular momentum
- Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
- Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
- U.K. police arrested a female police officer on suspicion of corruption, as a multipronged probe into alleged wrongdoing tied to the News of the World tabloid continues to gather momentum. What's News—
- How can you keep the momentum?