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Word: Moment
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: from Latin momentum (see momentum)
ˈməʊm(ə)nt
a very brief period of time
Short Definition:brief period of time
Examples:- she was silent for a moment before replying
- a few moments later he returned to the office
importance
Short Definition:importance
Examples:- the issues were of little moment to the electorate
a turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.
Short Definition:turning effect produced by force at distance
a quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first, second, third, or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from a given value, typically mean or zero. The first moment is the mean, the second moment the variance, the third moment the skew, and the fourth moment the kurtosis.
Short Definition:quantity expressing deviation from given value
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