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Meaning of moment

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  moment
      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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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