释义 |
momenˈtarian nonce-wd. [f. moment n. + -arian.] One who believes in ‘moments’ (see moment n. 3 b).
1863De Morgan in Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 598 Cotes was an infinitesimalist; so was Newton, till he abjured in 1706. But he continued a momentarian—which I take to be a (dx)∞-man—all his life. |