[ˈməʊm(ə)nt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- 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


Phrases:
- at any moment
- at the moment
- at this moment in time
- for the moment
- have a moment
- have one's moments
- in a moment
- in the moment
- live for the moment
- moment of truth
- not a moment too soon
- not for a moment
- of the moment
- one moment
- share a moment
- the moment —

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin momentum (see momentum)