momentum
UK/ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm//ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/
momentum noun: of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
Noun
momentum (countable and uncountable, plural momentums or momenta)
- Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
- Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
- The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
- 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, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Old Apple Dealer
- Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 31
- The surmise of an accelerated price trend in the analysis (technical or fundamental) of an asset.
momentum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
momentum in Hindi
- product of mass and velocity
- संवेग samveg
momentum in Tamil
- இயங்குவிசை, உந்தம், திணிவுவேகம், விசையேறுதல், விறுவிறுப்பாதல், அசைவு வேகம்
momentum in Marathi
- momentum
- वेग veg
momentum in Urdu
- معیار حرکت
More languagesFewer languages
- momentum in Bengali
- ভরবেগ, গতিবেগ, প্রেরণা
- momentum in Malayalam
- ആക്കം ākkaṁ, സംവേഗം saṁvēgaṁ
- momentum in Kannada
- ಚಲನ ಪರಿಮಾಣ, ಉರುಬು
- momentum in Tagalog
- dagsa
- momentum in Arabic
- زَخَم حَرَكَة zaḵam ḥaraka, زَخَم zaḵam
- momentum in Indonesian
- impuls, momentum, pusa
- momentum in Persian
- تکانه
- momentum in Thai
- โมเมนตัม moo-men-dtâm
- momentum in Vietnamese
- động lượng, đà
Examples of momentum in a sentence
- For mechanical systems, the phase space usually consists of all possible values of position and momentum variables.
- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
Forms of momentum
| plural | momentums |
|---|---|
| plural | momenta |
Origin of momentum
Borrowed from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.
Words formed from momentum
Phrases with momentum
Questions about momentum
- What does momentum mean?
- Momentum means of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
- What is momentum in Hindi?
- Momentum in Hindi is संवेग (samveg). See Momentum meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is momentum?
- Momentum is a noun.
- How do you pronounce momentum?
- Momentum is pronounced /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of momentum?
- The plural of momentum is momentums.
Words near momentum in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: momentum (page history and authors); momentum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वेग (Marathi) (page history and authors); momentum (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); momentum (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); momentum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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