| 单词 | moment |
| 释义 | moment (once / 14 pages) 1n 2n 3n A moment is a particular point in time. Some moments you remember forever: like the moment you earned your driver's license or the moment you learned that you passed your organic chemistry class. A moment is a short, but unspecified, amount of time. At Thanksgiving, you are supposed to take a moment to be grateful for friends and family. Or maybe you have been asked to observe a "moment of silence" for a national tragedy. Moment can also mean "importance." If you say something is "of little moment," then you are saying it doesn't matter. WORD FAMILYmoment: momentaneous, momentary, momentous, moments+/momentary: momentarily/momentous: momentously, momentousness USAGE EXAMPLESHer “aha moment” as a craftsman didn’t happen until a chance meeting eight years ago with an engraver of rifles and knives. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) "It's a great moment for Test cricket," said commentator Bill Lawry on Australia's Nine Network. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) "This is an incredibly sensitive moment in this proceeding," Gergel said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n an indefinitely short time wait just a moment Syn|Hypo|Hyper bit, minute, mo, second New York minute, blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) time an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) 2n a particular point in time the moment he arrived the party began Syn|Hypo|Hyper instant, minute, second climax, culmination the decisive moment in a novel or play eleventh hour, last minutethe latest possible moment moment of trutha crucial moment on which much depends moment of truththe moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull pinpointa very brief moment timea suitable moment psychological momentthe most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect high timethe latest possible moment occasionthe time of a particular event point, point in time an instant of time 3n at this time she is studying at the moment Syn|Hyper here and now, present moment nowadays, present the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech 4n importance in effect or influence 2virtue is of more moment than security Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper consequence, import inconsequence having no important effects or influence matter (used with negation) having consequence hell to paydire consequences significance the quality of being significant n a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) 3Hypo|Hyper moment of inertia the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration moment of a couplegiven two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them dipole momentthe moment of a dipole electric dipole momentthe dipole moment in an electric dipole magnetic dipole moment(physics) a current loop gives rise to a magnetic field characteristic of a magnetic dipole force (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity n the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value Hypo|Hyper second moment the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin variancethe second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value standard deviationthe square root of the variance covariance(statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means statistic a datum that can be represented numerically |
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