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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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Despite the deceleration, the results indicate that the Japanese economy has yet to lose significant momentum, even as the Middle East crisis drives up oil prices and stokes inflationary pressures across import-dependent sectors.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

As the number of gluons increases, the proton's momentum becomes spread among more of them.

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

This is to prevent players trying to break up the opposition's momentum.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

This led him on to mechanics, where he did important work on momentum and studied the nature of centrifugal force, demonstrating its similarity to gravity, and improved on Galileo’s treatment of the flight of projectiles.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

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

Various properties of the S-matrix were known—notably analyticity with respect to values of particle momenta, and so-called crossing symmetry associated with exchanging particles and antiparticles.

From Scientific American Jun. 6, 2019

The chief momenta in the physico-theological argument are as follow: 1.

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

You'll see me again shortly; but there have been momentums in my career when I said to myself, "Shall I ever aller out of this alive!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 by Various




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