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say it: MOH-muhnt
moment is a noun meaning "a particular point in time". It is pronounced /ˈmoʊmənt/ — MOH-muhnt. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a particular point in time
“the moment he arrived the party began”
at this time
“the disappointments of the here and now”
“she is studying at the moment”
having important effects or influence
“decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself”
“virtue is of more moment than security”
“that result is of no consequence”
a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
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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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.