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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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As open-source artificial intelligence gains momentum, Nvidia may be making a sizable acquisition.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

"I can't accept, and we shouldn't accept, losing individual battles, duels, second balls, not winning enough tackles and just getting the momentum of the game going our way," the former Hearts manager added.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Financial analysts said the strong results highlight Nvidia's ongoing momentum.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Okta pointed to strength with its largest customers, as well as momentum with its core offerings that secure the identities of organizations’ workers and customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

When the girl reached them, she grabbed hold of the doorway to stop her momentum.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

"Their momenta are not scattered but simply exchanged between collision partners. Each atom's momentum remains conserved -- it can only be passed on, never lost."

From Science Daily Jan. 7, 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

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 set of all the particles' positions and momenta we call the steam's microstate.

From Scientific American Apr. 20, 2020

The proof of this fundamental proposition rests entirely on the following momenta of argument.

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

He did not like chromo-lithographs, or the framed photographs which Mrs. Alwynn called her "momentums of travel," among his rare old prints, either.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley




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