how long is a moment?

Question

in this age of science, exactly how long is a moment?

Answer 1

A little longer than "just a second" but not as long as "in a little while".

Better yet, how long is "soon"

Answer 2

A moment of time is to short when you are in a hurry and to long when you are board. Unless there is a time limit put on a moment in the science world, it don't have a fix time.

Answer 3

moment

mo·ment [mṓmənt]
(plural mo·ments)
noun
1. short time: a very short interval of time
Wait a moment.

2. particular instant: a particular instant in time
At that moment she walked in the door.

3. present: the present time
busy at the moment

4. significant period: an important or significant time or occasion
great moments in world history

5. short period of excellence: a brief period of excellence or interest (often used in the plural)
It's not a great opera, but it has its moments.

6. importance: special importance or significance (formal)
a decision of great moment

7. philosophy specific stage: a specific stage or aspect of something

8. philosophy Same as momentum (sense 4)
(dated)

9. physics tendency to produce rotation: a tendency to cause motion, especially rotation

10. physics product of force times distance: the product of a quantity such as a force multiplied by its perpendicular distance from a given point

11. statistics mean in frequency distribution: the expected value of the deviations of a variable, compared to a fixed value, raised to a given power


[14th century. Via French < Latin momentum "movement" < movere "to move"]

Answer 4

How long is a moment ?

1). A very brief time

a) Crack
b). Flash
c). Instant
d). Minute
e). secong
f). Trice
g). Twingle
h). Wink

2). A particular interval of time that is limited and often crucial.

a). instant
b). Juncture
c). Point

Answer 5

A moment cannot be measured by the temporal dimension (aka - time)
A moment is felt...

If you kiss someone you love for what seems to be a large amount of time, do people say that it was a "beautiful large amount of time?" nay, they say that it was a "Beautiful moment"

Answer 6

There is no particular amount of time to be a moment. It's open-ended and subjective.

Answer 7

mathematically : limit t tending to 0 but not zero.(calculus notation)

where t is time.

Philosophically a moment is generally the time which our mind takes to change from one thought to another.

Answer 8

a minute portion of time,a point of time, an instant as,at that very moment

Answer 9

A point in time has no duration. It is zero dimensional.
Its size is exactly zero.
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Answer 10

"moment" is a qualitative term not quantitative. It is a short time which is relative...