moment

nouns

a particular point in time
"the moment he arrived the party began"
instant, minute, moment, second
an indefinitely short time
"wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
bit, minute, mo, moment, second
is derived from
momentary
is derived from
momentaneous
at this time
"the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"
here and now, moment, present moment
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"
consequence, import, moment
is derived from
momentous
a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
moment
is a type of (narrower)
(physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
"force equals mass times acceleration"
force
the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
moment
domain category
a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
statistics
is a type of (narrower)
a datum that can be represented numerically
statistic