English-French translations for moment

• moment
  Nous vivons un moment historique. We have reached a historic moment.
  C'est la crainte que je ressens pour le moment. That is my fear for the moment.
  Elle ne s'y trouve même pas pour le moment. It is not even there at the moment.
• instant
  À présent, tournons-nous un instant vers le futur. Now let us turn to the future for a moment.
  (La séance est suspendue pendant quelques instants) (The sitting was suspended for a few moments)
  C'est tout ce que j'ai à dire pour l'instant. That is all I have to say at the moment.
• à ce moment
• arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe
• en ce moment

Definition of moment

• A brief, unspecified amount of time
• The smallest portion of time; an instant
• Weight or importance
• The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation
• A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour
• A fit; a brief tantrum
• A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points

Examples

• Wait a moment, while I lock the front door
• If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia

Related words

• momentum
• momentous
• momentary
• momentarily
• momentariness
• momentousness
• four-momentum
• momentane
• moment of momentum