moment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
moment
n.
infinitely short period of time; exact point of time, present time; importance, value; product of a force and the distance from its action to a point (Physics, Mechanics)
Moment
Moment or
Moments may refer to:
Science, engineering, and mathematics
- Moment (time), a medieval unit of time
- Moment (mathematics), used in probability theory and statistics
- Moment (physics), several related concepts, including:
- Angular momentum or moment of momentum, the rotational analog of momentum
- Electric dipole moment, a measurement of the charge difference and direction between two or more charges
- Magnetic moment, a measure of the strength of a magnetic source
- Moment of inertia, a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation rate
- Torque or moment, the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis
- Bending moment, a moment that results in the bending of a structural element
- First moment of area, a property of an object related to its resistance to shear stress
- Second moment of area, a property of an object related to its resistance to bending and deflection
- Polar moment of inertia, a property of an object related to its resistance to torsion
- Image moments, statistical properties of an image
- Seismic moment, quantity used to measure the size of an earthquake
- Plasma moments, fluid description of plasma in terms of density, velocity and pressure
moment
Noun
1. a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
(synonym) minute, second, instant
(hypernym) point, point in time
(hyponym) climax, culmination
2. an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
(synonym) minute, second, bit
(hypernym) time
(hyponym) blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
3. at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"
(synonym) here and now, present moment
(hypernym) present, nowadays
4. having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"
(synonym) consequence, import
(hypernym) significance
(hyponym) matter
5. the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces
(hypernym) force
(hyponym) dipole moment
(part-holonym) couple
6. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
(hypernym) statistic
(hyponym) second moment
(classification) statistics
Moment (das/der)
n.
moment, instant, very short space of time; (Slang) jiffy, trice; exact point of time
moment
nm.
moment, instant, minute; period, point; momentum; a little while, a short while
