momentum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌməʉˈmentəm/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌmɐʉˈmentəm/ === Noun === momentum (countable and uncountable, plural momentums or momenta) (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. (finance) The surmise of an accelerated price trend in the analysis (technical or fundamental) of an asset. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== wind at one's back == Indonesian == === Etymology === Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mo.ˈmɛn.tʊm/ Rhymes: -tʊm, -ʊm, -m Hyphenation: mo‧men‧tum === Noun === momentum (plural momentum-momentum) momentum: (mechanics) 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 Synonyms: impuls, pusa moment Synonyms: ketika, saat chance Synonyms: kans, kesempatan, peluang ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “momentum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology === From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to moveō (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [moːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [moˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === mōmentum n (genitive mōmentī); second declension movement, motion, impulse; course change, revolution, movement, disturbance particle, part, point (of time) brief space, moment (in time), short time Synonyms: vestīgium, pūnctum cause, circumstance weight, influence, importance Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, pondus, opportūnitās mōmentum facere/habere ― to have importance, to exercise influence maximē mōmentī ― most important (New Latin, physics) momentum, quantity of motion [from 18th c.] (New Latin, physics, mechanics) moment (product of a distance and physical quantity) [from 15th c.] ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers momentum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication "momentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “momentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.