(n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
(n.) Impulsive power; force; momentum.
(n.) Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.
(n.) An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
(n.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
(n.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(6) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
(7) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(8) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(9) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
(10) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(11) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(12) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(13) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(14) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(15) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
(16) At the moment they’re playing some of the best football I’ve seen from any Tottenham team for many, many years.
(17) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
(18) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(19) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(20) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
Momentary
Definition:
(a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
(2) The horizontal changes of the other points analyzed as well as all vertical changes are not predicted satisfactorily in the momentary version 4.22 A (febr.
(3) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(4) Results indicate that momentary DRO maintained response suppression comparable to that obtained by whole-interval DRO.
(5) In the epicortical recordings, the development of a new focus is indicated by a functional uncoupling between the superficial layers of the cortical area to be involved and the momentary active focus.
(6) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
(7) Responses which identified the momentary state of the display were food-reinforced, while those which did not (errors) produced time out.
(8) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(9) Reducing MDx production or the repair period, or accelerating the creation of new modeling units would have the opposite effects on the momentary MDx burden but would also go through a transient phase before developing the new steady state conditions.
(10) Previous studies have shown that momentary contact between a methylmethacrylate intraocular lens and the corneal endothelial cells results in extensive cell damage.
(11) The momentary entry of urine into the proximal urethra during coughing can be demonstrated by a new test which can be conducted using apparatus now commonly available for urodynamic investigations.
(12) In that momentary pause my nerves bubbled up in my chest.
(13) How about: 'Fuck off you fucking…'" Cue momentary alarm before, thankfully, his face relaxes and he laughs out loud.
(14) It is argued that in schizophrenia a core deficit in momentary processing capacity underlies the above performance pattern.
(15) Palatabilities and also satieties are assumption-loaded abstractions from the observable momentary causal relationships between eating or drinking and the situations in which it occurs.
(16) After successful colposuspension, the proximal urethra is exposed to compression against the symphysis pubis by the momentary descent of the pelvic viscera during physical effort.
(17) Most television, to which talented, energetic people devoted months or years of their lives, has left momentary imprints on our retinas and slightly less momentary imprints on our brains before vanishing into the ether.
(18) The further computation of the EEG time series after DHT results in the time series of the momentary power and the momentary frequency.
(19) The approach through a left thoracotomy gave good exposure and momentary cessation of cardiopulmonary bypass made ligation of the calcified ductus possible.
(20) A system for measuring oxygen consumption from momentary respiratory values of free moving person is described.