a turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.
The moment of force applied to the wrench created a turning effect that loosened the stubborn bolt.
a quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first, second, third, or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from some given value, typically mean or zero. The first moment is the mean, the second moment the variance, the third moment the skew, and the fourth moment the kurtosis.
The first, second, third, and fourth moments of a data set respectively provide information about the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis of the distribution.
importance
"the issues were of little moment to the electorate"
When something is odd,nonsensical,funny and delightful.Usually bieng reminicent of Dr.Elefun,the happy-go-lucky old professor from Astro Boy
Lil´Billy:what do you think of my drawing?
Pops:well,i think its a big-nosed-professor moment!
when a muslim gets lynched for supposedly carrying beef, and because it happens alot in U.P (Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern India)
Person 1: Yo I heard yet another lynch mob killed a muslim for "carrying beef"
Person 2: U.P moment
when you are insanely seizing out to music and/or as a reaction. Can be heightened with the use of drugs.
Hey wanna go have a tweaker moment after school? SWMRS released an album.
He was having a tweaker moment.
When you are sitting quietly and suddenly utter in a gravely voice: "Sheeeit."
"You're out of Pepsi and we're not going shopping today"
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*Connie Moment* "Sheeeit."