moment
n 1: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: minute, second, instant]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: 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] 4: having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security" [syn: consequence, import] [ant: inconsequence] 5: the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces 6: the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
