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• n  a particular point in time
  the moment he arrived the party began
• n  an indefinitely short time
  wait just a moment
• n  at this time
  she is studying at the moment
• n  having important effects or influence
  virtue is of more moment than security
• n  a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
• n  the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value

• Life magazine photographer Paul Schutzer chronicled behind-the-scenes moments of Camelot's princes and princesses.
• PTI Magazine looks at some of the Oylmpics greatest moments.
• The long hard-fought Presidential campaigns were marked by vast stretches of downtime, like this moment of respite enjoyed by Cindy McCain in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas.

• minute
• second
• instant
• mo
• bit
• here and now
• present moment
• consequence
• import

• inconsequence

News & Articles

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• Moment of Silence to Mark Newtown
  Moment of silence, calls for action mark 6 months since Newtown school shooting        
  June 14, 2013 - ABC News
• Moment of silence marks 6 months since Newtown
  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence.
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Moment of silence marks 6 months since Newtown shooting
  NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence.
  June 14, 2013 - The Alexandria Town Talk

Quotes

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• David Petraeus in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  We are engaged in a tough fight. After years of war, we have arrived at a critical moment,he said. "We must demonstrate to the Afghan people and to the world that Al-Qaeda and its network of extremist allies will not be allowed to once...
• Bertrand Piccard in Press TV
  That was the moment that proved the mission was successful, we made it,Piccard told journalists.
• Benjamin Netanyahu in TIME
  I think we should seize the moment ...... when we have the ability to negotiate a peace,Netanyahu said.