of the moment

moment | American Dictionary

moment
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmoʊ·mənt/

momentnoun[C] (SHORT TIME)

a very short period of time:
Hold still for a moment while I tie your shoe.
I’ll be ready in just a moment.

momentnoun[C] (OCCASION)

a particular time or occasion:
I’m waiting for the right moment to tell her the good news.
Just at that moment, the phone rang.
Are you staying with your mother at the moment (= now)?
A moment is also a special time or opportunity:
You know that when that curtain goes up, it’s going to be your big moment.

momentary

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈmoʊ·mənˌter·i/
There was a momentary lull in the conversation.

Examples of moment

moment
The parameters d and n denote two moments of time relative to the time of the initial paddle movement.
Although evident throughout the century, the unevenness of this system manifested distinctive characteristics at various moments and in various parts of the empire.
There are, however, strong moments in the book.
Each of these nonparametric bounds provides insights regarding different aspects (moments) of proxy discount factors.
Figure 9 documents how important these deviations are for the bond price and the transition of the moments of the cross-sectional distribution.
Given the chosen functional form for the density, the first n moments capture the same information as the n + 1 coefficients of the density.
At different moments public health reformers depicted workingclass women as either the most vulnerable group or as the primary agents of contagion.
She argued that these moments help us understand what separates icons from other images.
As soon as garbage collection comes into play, one has to take into account that systems with different block sizes trigger collections at different moments.
After exploring the geometry of the problem, we analyze the forces and moments applied to the pegs by assuming quasi-static conditions.
We turn to it now, by focusing on "snapshots" of crucial moments.
The controller design was based on a six-degree-of-freedom dynamic model with forces and moments as the actuation means.
How great then must be that being to whom the thoughts of all these orders of beings are known at a moment's glance.
I wish to dwell for a few moments on the circularity of this situation.
Also, there is a very occasional tendency even in the best of papers to retreat into technical language at crucial moments.
See all examples of moment
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withmoment

moment

These are words often used in combination with moment.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

anxious moments
I imagine all of us who are concerned have been giving anxious moments of thought as to what can be done.
From the
Hansard archive