Synonym: force, impetus, push, thrust. Similar words: moment, in a moment, for the moment, at the moment, at this moment, not to mention, commencement, amendment. Meaning: [məʊ'mentəm] 
n. 1. an impelling force or strength 2. the product of a body's mass and its velocity.
n. 1. an impelling force or strength 2. the product of a body's mass and its velocity. 
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121) This feature can be used to provide simulated inertia and momentum.
122) By 1974 the North Sea oil boom was gaining momentum rapidly.
123) They have inertia, mass and momentum and obey centrifugal force.
124) They maintained the momentum of the privatization programme in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the privatization of electricity and water.
125) First let us recall our description of a momentum state.
126) The first is whether the South Carolina result would give Bush the momentum to win in Michigan.
127) Momentum is mass times velocity, so both factors influence the size of centripetal force.
128) The momentum derives not from a lulling flow or titillating suspense but from astoundingly acrobatic leaps from perch to perch.
129) There is a transfer of momentum from one to the other.Sentencedict.com
130) But the momentum for the moment seems to be more with Bush than with Gore.
131) Meanwhile, under the pressure of new events, most of the other initiatives had lost momentum.
132) In section 6.5.1 the principle of conservation of angular momentum was outlined.
133) With 16 minutes left the Bruins lapsed into their passive mode, and the momentum turned.
134) The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform.
135) The vehicles will go through deep drifts for short distances when the momentum of the vehicle will carry it through.
136) If it is accepted that general management is still gathering momentum, more may yet be to come.
137) We can study in detail how the complementary descriptions of position and momentum relate to each other.
138) At length he reached his hotel and was thrust through the front doors by the sheer momentum of the crowd.
139) The pace of new auto loans also lost momentum from a month earlier.
140) The extent to which the momentum towards more efficient use of energy for heat had slackened since 1985 had surprised them.
141) Middlesbrough need a win at Tranmere to gain promotion momentum after taking only two points from the last four games.
142) Now, as momentum picks up, vacant spots downtown are filling in, like a jigsaw puzzle falling into place.
143) When midway through the set four go-go dancers appear, the warped cabaret becomes all too slick and momentum is lost.
144) How did the planets pick up the necessary angular momentum, and why do the planets have different chemical compositions?
145) Gradually the train gathered momentum, and within seconds it was moving at top speed.
146) It's a subject that has gained momentum across the country in recent years.
147) She left, and it took her partner a year to build the forward momentum she had disrupted by her sudden departure.
148) In more technical language, its position and momentum can both simultaneously be known.
149) Biological and entomological studies gained momentum through the photographic record.
150) The degree of capitalist development implied the momentum of a bourgeois revolution.
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