MOMENTUM (momenta)

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Irregular inflected form: momenta   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does momentum mean? 

• MOMENTUM (noun)
  The noun MOMENTUM has 2 senses:

1. an impelling force or strength

2. the product of a body's mass and its velocity

  Familiarity information: MOMENTUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOMENTUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impelling force or strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impulse; momentum

Context example:

the car's momentum carried it off the road

Hypernyms ("momentum" is a kind of...):

force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The product of a body's mass and its velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities

Hypernyms ("momentum" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "momentum"):

angular momentum (the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation)

 Context examples 

Your resistance to colds may be running down, but trust that by taking a break, you won’t lose momentum.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The optical trap is based on the concept of photon momentum transfer and has many applications.

(Optical Trap, NCI Thesaurus)

It struck him on the side; and such was his forward momentum and the unexpectedness of it, White Fang was hurled to the ground and rolled clear over.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Wait till I get— He hesitated and assured himself of the pronunciation before he said "momentum.".

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The jerks perceptibly diminished; as the sled gained momentum, he caught them up, till it was moving steadily along.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

‘Spin’ is the term for the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, which is referred to as up or down.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

It was too late, however, for we were rapidly gathering momentum, and an instant later had shot clear of the station.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meteoroid impacts are common in the deep space neighborhood of Bennu, and it is possible that these small fragments of space rock could be hitting Bennu where OSIRIS-REx is not observing it, shaking loose particles with the momentum of their impact.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

Instead of superconducting loops, the quantum information in the quantum computer Lepage and his colleagues are devising use the ‘spin’ of an electron – its inherent angular momentum, which can be up or down – to store quantum information.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

White Fang drove in upon it: but his own shoulder was high above, while he struck with such force that his momentum carried him on across over the other's body.

(White Fang, by Jack London)