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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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Each individual gluon, including those forming the junction, therefore carries a smaller portion of the proton's total momentum.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

As the push to use HSI’s tech to search voter information gained momentum, a new problem emerged.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

The manufacturing data adds momentum that could deliver second-quarter growth well above the Bank of Canada’s original estimate of 2.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Simply banning players from going to the touchline would not stop coaches from using the goalkeeper tactical timeout to break up the momentum of the opposition.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Not even the relentless momentum of our ship—now carried by a steady wind—can stir these waters.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The angular momenta tied to its lattice vibrations combined in a way that produced a new rotation moving at twice the frequency but in the opposite direction.

From Science Daily May 24, 2026

But it rides on a brilliantly tuned air suspension with adaptive dampers to tie down rebellious momenta.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

Because the particles’ final energies and momenta contain information about what they encountered on their journey through the nucleus, they can also help uncover what’s happening in the hidden hearts of atoms.

From Scientific American Apr. 27, 2023

Physicists once assumed that if you inverted all the particles’ positions—swapping left and right, up and down, forward and back—and reverse all their momenta, the universe should work just the same.

From Science Magazine Feb. 5, 2021

The change does not consist of these momenta, but is generated or produced by them as their effect.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

"Differing momentums appear at different positions on the detector. Put more simply, the different directions in which the electrons move in a layer are represented by corresponding dots on the detector," said Elmers.

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2024

He says he rarely questions the root of his attraction to cars, the solitary driver and the twin momentums of fate and purpose.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2023

But after their six years together individual momentums are forcing a group hiatus.

From New York Times Jul. 27, 2012

Although clocking at 40 minutes, you will find just seven post-rock songs that go from slow psychedelic notes to big momentums of distortion, noise and epic choruses.

From The Guardian Aug. 17, 2011

Sometimes in Parliament you catch the vibration of big momentums in a nation's progress.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle




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