moment
/mˈoʊmʌnt/noun2 syllables
Moment means: an indefinitely short time.
Synonyms for moment9
What does moment mean?6
noun
1
an indefinitely short time“wait just a moment”
2
a particular point in time“the moment he arrived the party began”
3
at this time“the disappointments of the here and now”
4
having important effects or influence“decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself”
5
a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
6
the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Moment in a sentence
- From that moment on, he felt undying hatred for his oppressors.CS
- For the moment, we want to postpone making a decision.CM
- The moment we met, we fell in love with each other.CK
- From the moment of his birth, man cannot get along without depending on others.unknown
- The moment she heard the news of her son's death, she burst into tears.CM
- The moment he touched it, it blew up.CM
- Judging from the look of the sky, it may rain at any moment.CK
- The moment he arrived at the station, it began to rain.Dejo
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Forms of moment
as a noun
- plural
- moments