The moment

moment

(n): a particular point in time (n): an instant of time (n): an indefinitely short time (n): an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) (n): at this time (n): the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech (n): having important effects or influence (n): the quality of being significant (n): a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) (n): (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity (n): the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value (n): a datum that can be represented numerically