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momentum — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • importance noun The quality of being significant, valuable, or worthy of attention.
  • moment noun A very short period of time, or a particular point in time.
  • second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
  • time noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.

Senses

momentum is used for these senses in English:

  • importance The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
  • moment (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
  • second A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
  • second (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
  • time (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).

moment — full definition

  1. noun A very short period of time, or a particular point in time.
  2. name A surname.

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