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MOMENTUM
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Irregular inflected form: momenta
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The product of a body's mass and its velocity
Example:
the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("momentum" is a kind of...):
physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "momentum"):
angular momentum (the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An impelling force or strength
Example:
the car's momentum carried it off the road
Synonyms:
impulse; momentum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("momentum" is a kind of...):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
Context examples:
This emphasis on money matters started to gain momentum last month, in December, when Jupiter, the good fortune planet, entered financial Capricorn, your eighth house of other people’s money.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Here the cub lost momentum.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He halted with awkward abruptness, with stiff fore-legs bracing himself against his momentum, almost sitting down on his haunches, so desirous was he of avoiding contact with the dog he was in the act of attacking.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
