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momentum
English
Etymology
From Latin m?mentum. Doublet of moment and movement
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?(?)?m?nt?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mo??m?nt?m/
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.
- The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
- 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
- The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
- 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
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See also
- wind at one's back
Latin
Etymology
From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to move? (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mo??men.tum/, [mo??m?n?t????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mo?men.tum/, [m??m?n?t?um]
Noun
m?mentum n (genitive m?ment?); second declension
- movement, motion, impulse; course
- change, revolution, movement, disturbance
- particle, part, point
- (of time) brief space, moment, short time
- cause, circumstance; weight, influence, moment
- importance
- (New Latin, physics) momentum
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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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.
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ballistic
English
Etymology
From Latin ballista (“a military siege engine for throwing stones”) +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??l?s.t?k/
- Rhymes: -?st?k
Adjective
ballistic (comparative more ballistic, superlative most ballistic)
- (not comparable) Or relating to ballistics.
- (comparable) Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power
- (comparable, slang) Very angry.
Synonyms
- ballistical
Antonyms
- anti-ballistic
- guided, projectile
Derived terms
Translations
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