Moment - Definition

n 1: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the
party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo";
"it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment,
mo, minute, second, bit]
3: at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she
is studying at the moment" [syn: here and now, present
moment, moment]
4: 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" [syn: consequence, import, moment] [ant:
inconsequence]
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