moment

a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"

an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"

at this time; "the disappointments of the here and now"; "she is studying at the moment"

having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment than security"; "that result is of no consequence"

a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)

the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value