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moment
ˈməʊm(ə)nt Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a very brief period of time.
    E.g. she was silent for a moment before replying
  • importance.
    E.g. the issues were of little moment to the electorate
  • a turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.
  • 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.

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