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moment mo·ment

Spelling: [moh-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈmoʊ mənt/

Moment is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in moment (emmnot).

Definitions for moment

noun

1. an indefinitely short period of time; instant:
2. the present time or any other particular time (usually preceded by the):
3. a definite period or stage, as in a course of events; juncture:
4. importance or consequence:
5. a particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.:
6. Statistics. the mean or expected value of the product formed by multiplying together a set of one or more variates or variables each to a specified power.
7. Philosophy. an aspect of a thing. Obsolete. an essential or constituent factor.
8. Mechanics. a tendency to produce motion, especially about an axis. the product of a physical quantity and its directed distance from an axis:

Origin of moment

1300-50; Middle English Latin mōmentum motion, cause of motion, hence, influence, importance, essential factor, moment of time, equivalent to mō- (variant stem of movēre to Examples for moment

In this holy atmosphere we paused for a moment in silent reverence.

Philothea had listened so earnestly, that for a moment all other thoughts were expelled from her mind.

But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.

And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

Philæmon averted his face for a moment, and struggled hard with his feelings.

At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.

A moment later Percival remembered his last words, also his reference to Blythe.

And that would have been the moment for Lynch to turn his back.

From the first moment you spoke, I have felt this mysterious power.

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.