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English

Etymology

From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“matter, stuff, material”), derivative of Latin mater (“mother”). Doublet of Madeira.

Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæt?/, [?mæ??]
  • Homophone: madder
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: mat?ter

Noun

matter (countable and uncountable, plural matters)

1. Substance, material.
   1. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
   2. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

      Antonym: antimatter

   3. A kind of substance.

   4. Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

   5. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
2. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     if the matter should be tried by duel

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

3. An approximate amount or extent.
4. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
   • 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince

     He is the matter of virtue.

5. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
6. (dated) Pus.

Synonyms

• material
• stuff
• substance

Derived terms

Related terms

• dark matter

Translations

Verb

matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)

1. (intransitive) To be important. [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important. [from 17th c.]
   • , Folio Society 1973, p.47:

     Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […]

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 56:

     He matter'd not that, he said; coy maids made the fondest wives […].

3. (intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

   • Each slight sore mattereth.

Derived terms

• it doesn't matter
• no matter (“in spite of”)

Synonyms

• (be important): signify

Translations

French

Verb

matter

1. Alternative spelling of mater

Conjugation

Anagrams

• mettra

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat?/

Adjective

matter

1. comparative degree of matt
2. inflection of matt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle French

Alternative forms

• mater

Verb

matter

1. to checkmate

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

matter m pl or f pl

1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

matter f pl

1. indefinite plural of matte (Etymology 1)

English

Etymology

From Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin m?mentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mo?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: mo?ment

Noun

moment (countable and uncountable, plural moments)

1. A brief, unspecified amount of time.

   Synonyms: stound, instant, trice
2. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
3. (figuratively) Weight or importance.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard III, 3,7,67:

     In deep designs, in matter of great moment, / No less importing than our general good.

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Second Stain, (Norton 2005, p.1192)

     The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.

4. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation.

   Synonym: moment of force

5. (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
6. (neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
7. (colloquial) A fit; a brief tantrum.
8. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
9. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

Derived terms

See also

• torque

Translations

References

• 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v 3 p 3174. ("The smallest portion of time; an instant." is a direct quote from this Dictionary.)

Further reading

• moment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• montem

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu?men/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment (specific instant or time)

Derived terms

• de moment
• momentet

Further reading

• “moment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “moment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “moment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “moment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mom?nt]

Noun

moment m

1. moment (specific instant or time)

Related terms

• See motiv

Further reading

• moment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• moment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch moment, from Middle French moment, from Latin momentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: mo?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

moment n (plural momenten, diminutive momentje n)

1. moment (very brief period of time)

   Synonym: ogenblik

2. (physics) moment of force, moment

   Synonym: krachtmoment

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: moment
• ? Indonesian: momen

French

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.m??/

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment (point in time)
2. moment (short period of time)
3. a while

4. (physics, mechanics) moment, momentum

Derived terms

See also

• instant

Further reading

• “moment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment, instant

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin momentum, from movere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??m?nt/

Noun

moment n (definite singular momentet, indefinite plural moment, definite plural momenta)

1. element, variable, contributing factor or circumstance

2. (physics) moment of force

References

• “moment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

moment m (plural moments)

1. moment

Polish

Etymology

From Latin m?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.m?nt/

Noun

moment m inan (diminutive momencik)

1. (physics) moment

   moment bezw?adno?ci – moment of inertia

   moment gn?cy / moment zginaj?cy – bending moment

   moment p?du – angular momentum, moment of momentum

   moment si?y – moment of force

   moment skr?caj?cy – twisting moment

2. moment, a short period of time

   Synonym: chwila

Declension

Derived terms

• momentalny
• momentami

Further reading

• moment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• moment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French moment, from Latin momentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mo?ment]

Noun

moment n (plural momente)

1. moment (brief period of time) (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

See also

• clip?
• secund?