moment

noun

1. 1

   having important effects or influence

   decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself

   virtue is of more moment than security

2. 2

   the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value

3. 3

   a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)

4. 4

   at this time

   the disappointments of the here and now

   she is studying at the moment

5. 5

   a particular point in time

   the moment he arrived the party began

6. 6

   an indefinitely short time

   wait just a moment

   in a mo