momentum
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin mōmentum.
Pronunciation Nounmomentum
- (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
- (physics) Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
- The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
- 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC ↗, page 31 ↗:
- Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
- French: quantité de mouvement
- German: Impuls
- Italian: spinta, impulso, momento
- Portuguese: momento
- Russian: и́мпульс
- Spanish: cantidad de movimiento, ímpetu
- French: élan
- German: Schwung, Wucht, Schwungkraft, Moment
- Italian: slancio, momento, impulso, impeto
- Portuguese: ímpeto, impulso
- Russian: и́мпульс
- Spanish: ímpetu, impulso
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