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 usually pretty good at something then you make a stupid mistake
How did you fuck that up? Sorry mate, I'm just having a shore moment
the event when something awkward happens.
When your duo doesn’t clutch and does something embarrassing then it is a mustache moment.
When you do or say something dumb
Used in a sentence: (John accidentally lost $100)
John: I can’t believe I lost $100, damn I just had a Karla moment