moment
noun
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having important effects or influenceimport
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the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
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a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
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at this timehere
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a particular point in time“The moment they arrived the party began.”second
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an indefinitely short time“wait just a moment”second