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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gain momentum (= keep increasing ) ▪ In the 1850s and 1860s, the British colonisation of India gained momentum. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE angular ▪ Similar effects operate for d orbitals, but not for s orbitals, ...
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Momentum is the fourth full-length studio album by post-hardcore band Close to Home , released on July 31, 2012, through Artery Recordings / Razor & Tie . It is the band's first album with vocalist Andrew DeNeef, after the departure of Nick Stiens in November ...
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n. 1 (context physics English) (of a body in motion) The tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity. 2 The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events. (i.e: a moment)
Usage examples of momentum.
The autocar lurched to a halt, and Holmes used the momentum to leap from the seat to the roadway.
The axial corridor began to creak loudly as the bearings changed their magnetic fields to act as a brake on the momentum of the tremendous wheels.
Laws derived from mechanics, such as the conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum, were found to be covariant with respect to Galilean transforms and afforded the mechanistic foundations of classical science.
If we move Phobos, for example, automatic bookkeeping in the Bell Continuum would adjust descriptors for all particles moving within the galaxy, deducting a tiny amount of their total momentum, angular momentum, and kinetic energy.
Like some victorious general swept on by the momentum of his first bloody success, he began shooting diphtheria microbes, and iodine tri-chloride, and the poison of diphtheria microbes, into rabbits, into sheep, into dogs.
Momentum carried it toward the sailor, but it doubled up and pawed at its shattered left eyesocket.
The pair collided but combined their momentum right into Xiao Fei as she was ducking around the vamp girl with the big boobs.
Letting, his momentum take him, keeping his hold on the framea, Atretes rolled and came to his feet, freeing the weapon and bringing the razor sharp spear point into the abdomen of an attacker.
Expertly slung, their fatal trajectories gathered speed and momentum in the classic stance of Gle Kiang-ten.
Assuming capture of a live hopper, apply interrogationtechniques to discover source of original backward momentum.
We can make up the total momentum after diverting the planetoid and let the impactor control system get things back in sync again.
The entire hockey team was taking her course, so she held a couple lectures at the rink and had the heavily padded players act out the conservation of momentum through a series of inelastic collisions.
Mercury, then using a gravity assist, and the extra force light sails get close to the sun, to send the ship upward on a close pass by either the other libration point or the Earth, with enough momentum to continue on up into the farther reaches of the solar system.
Before the ducking Brynn could even think about stabbing forward under that slashing blade, Ung Lik Dy altered the momentum so that his sword was cutting diagonal slashes between the two combatants, forcing Brynn to retreat instead.
She continued to dodge and to back away, allowing Ung Lik Dy to play out his momentum.