momentum
/ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The surmise of an accelerated price trend in the analysis (technical or fundamental) of an asset.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance."
- "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."
- "Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ..."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Proto-Italic *mowementom Latin *movimentum Latin mōmentumbor. English momentum Borrowed from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/
- British English: /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/