Instant

noun

1. A minute portion or point of time instant

   "a moment of dreadful suspense"

2. A comparatively brief period of time

   "moments of solitude"

3. Present time

   "at the moment she is at work on her fourth novel"

4. A time of excellence or conspicuousness

   "there's … some deliciously funny moments, but most of it is numbingly subtle"

5. Importance in influence or effect

   "decisions of moment must be made by our government"

6. A cause or motive of action
7. A stage in historical or logical development

   "a document of one moment in the history of thought and sensibility in the nineteenth century"

8. Tendency or measure of tendency to produce motion especially about a point or axis
9. The product of quantity (such as a force) and the distance to a particular axis or point
10. The mean see mean of the nth powers of the deviations see deviation of the observed values in a set of statistical data from a fixed value
11. The expected value of a power of the deviation see deviation of a random variable from a fixed value

noun phrase

1. A measure of the resistance of a body to angular acceleration about a given axis that is equal to the sum of the products of each element of mass in the body and the square of the element's distance from the axis

noun phrase

1. The final sword thrust in a bullfight
2. A moment of crisis on whose outcome much or everything depends

idiom

1. Very quickly as time passes

   "The weather kept changing moment by moment."

noun phrase

1. A short period of silent thought or prayer

   "The crowd observed a moment of silence for those who died in the tragedy."

noun

1. A moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension

   "The aha moment you experience when you've been trying to remember the name of a song and three hours later it hits you …"

noun

1. A moment of sudden realization, comprehension, or recognition that often precipitates a major change

   "Many patients emerge from illness having had a come-to-Jesus moment that reorients their thinking."

noun

1. The moment produced by a magnetic or electric dipole

noun

1. A vector quantity that is a measure of the torque exerted on a magnetic system (such as a bar magnet or dipole) when placed in a magnetic field and that for a magnet is the product of the distance between its poles and the strength of either pole

noun

1. The occasion when the mental atmosphere is most certain to be favorable to the full effect of an action or event