Definitions of momentum [ʊˈmɛn təm]

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Definition of 'momentum'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) momentum
force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events:
a career that lost momentum.

2. momentum
Mech. a quantity expressing the motion of a body or system, equal to the product of the mass of a body and its velocity.

Etymology: (1690–1700; < L mōmentum; see moment)

Definition of 'momentum'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) momentum, impulse
an impelling force or strength
"the car's momentum carried it off the road"

2. (noun) momentum
the product of a body's mass and its velocity
"the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"

Definition of 'momentum'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) momentum
the quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus

2. (noun) momentum
essential element, or constituent element

Translation of 'momentum'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the amount or force of motion in a moving body.
Afrikaans: momentum	Arabic: زَخَم، قُوَّة دافِعَه	Bulgarian: импулс
Brazilian: momento	Czech: hybnost	German: der Impuls
Danish: fart	Greek: ορμή, φόρα, κεκτημένη ταχ	Spanish: impulso,ímpetu
Estonian: impulss	Farsi: اندازه حرکت	Finnish: liikemäärä
French: quantité de mouvement	Hebrew: מוֹמֶנטוּם, תְּנוּפָה	Hindi: गति
Croatian: moment sile	Hungarian: mozgásmennyiség; nyomaték	Indonesian: momentum
Icelandic: skriðþungi	Italian: (quantità di moto)	Japanese: 運動量
Korean: 운동량	Lithuanian: judėjimo kiekis, varomoji	Latvian: kustības daudzums
Malay: momentum	Dutch: vaart	Norwegian: fart, styrke, drivkraft
Polish: impet	Persian: اندازه حرکت	Pashto: د خوځښت اندازه په فزيك كښ
Portuguese: impulso	Romanian: moment (mecanic)	Russian: инерция движущегося тела
Slovak: hybnosť	Slovenian: gonilna sila	Serbian: zamah
Swedish: rörelsemängd, styrka, kra	Thai: แรงผลักดัน	Turkish: hız
Taiwanese: 動量，動力	Ukrainian: механічний момент, інерці	Urdu: حرکت کی حالت میں موجود قو
Vietnamese: xung lượng	Chinese: 动量，动力
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