moment definition

1. a particular point in time
• examples: the moment he arrived the party began
2. an indefinitely short time
• examples: wait just a moment
• examples: in a mo
• examples: it only takes a minute
• examples: in just a bit
3. a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
4. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value