Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a moment.
- Lasting but a moment; very brief.
- Momentous.
- Of or pertaining to momentum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lasting but a moment; brief.
- adjective Important; momentous.
- adjective (Mech.) Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Lasting only for a
moment ;brief . - adjective obsolete
important ;momentous - adjective obsolete, engineering Of or relating to
moment ormomentum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rectilinear routes are momental routes and stations are vagrant routes.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Two momental areas lying in the same moment can cut each other in a momental segment which is not necessarily rectilinear.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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We will not delay over any general consideration of these momental routes, nor is it important for us to proceed to the still wider investigation of vagrant routes in general.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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a set of momental routes and the other of vagrant routes.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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