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· Latin
mōmentum
2 English words descend from Latin
mōmentum
, most common first.
moment
A particular point of space; a spot.
momentum
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.