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n. (time) | 1. instant, minute, moment, second | a particular point in time.; "the moment he arrived the party began" |
| ~ climax, culmination | the decisive moment in a novel or play.; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" |
| ~ point in time, point | an instant of time.; "at that point I had to leave" |
| ~ eleventh hour, last minute | the latest possible moment.; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules" |
| ~ moment of truth | a crucial moment on which much depends. |
| ~ moment of truth | the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull. |
| ~ pinpoint | a very brief moment.; "they were strangers sharing a pinpoint of time together" |
| ~ time | a suitable moment.; "it is time to go" |
| ~ psychological moment | the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect. |
n. (time) | 2. bit, minute, mo, moment, second | an indefinitely short time.; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" |
| ~ time | an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).; "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor in his time" |
| ~ blink of an eye, instant, jiffy, new york minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, heartbeat, flash | 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" |
n. (time) | 3. here and now, moment, present moment | at this time.; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment" |
| ~ nowadays, present | the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech.; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow" |
n. (attribute) | 4. consequence, import, 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" |
| ~ matter | (used with negation) having consequence.; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games" |
| ~ significance | the quality of being significant.; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power" |
| ~ hell to pay | dire consequences.; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay" |
n. (phenomenon) | 5. moment | a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force). |
| ~ force | (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity.; "force equals mass times acceleration" |
| ~ moment of inertia | the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration. |
| ~ moment of a couple | given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them. |
| ~ dipole moment | the moment of a dipole. |
n. (cognition) | 6. moment | the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ statistic | a datum that can be represented numerically. |
| ~ second moment | the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin. |
| ~ variance | the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value. |
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