Noun | 1. | moment - a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" |
2. | moment - an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" | |
3. | moment - at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment" Synonyms: here and now, present moment | |
4. | moment - having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security" Synonyms: consequence, import | |
5. | moment - the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces | |
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 |