moment >> ˈməʊm(ə)nt
Definition: [noun] a very brief period of time.
Example: she was silent for a moment before replying
Definition: [noun] importance.
Example: the issues were of little moment to the electorate
Definition: [noun] a turning effect produced by a force acting at a distance on an object.
Definition: [noun] a quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first, second, third, or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from a given value, typically mean or zero. The first moment is the mean, the second moment the variance, the third moment the skew, and the fourth moment the kurtosis.