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moment - a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" |
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minute,
second,
instant |
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point,
point in time sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
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climax,
culmination the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
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eleventh hour,
last minute the latest possible moment; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules"
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moment of truth a crucial moment on which much depends
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moment of truth a crucial moment on which much depends
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pinpoint the sharp point of a pin
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time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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psychological moment the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect
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moment - an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" |
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minute,
second,
bit |
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time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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britain,
great britain,
u.k.,
uk,
united kingdom,
united kingdom of great britain and nort an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
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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); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
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moment - the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value |
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statistic a datum that can be represented numerically
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statistics a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
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second moment the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin
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variance an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance"
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moment - a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) |
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force physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
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moment of inertia the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration
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moment of a couple given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them
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dipole moment the moment of a dipole
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