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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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Richard Horsey, senior Asia adviser at the International Crisis Group, said the ICJ ruling may have little impact on Min Aung Hlaing's momentum.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

The key instrument is a photoemission momentum microscope.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

Kallas also expressed doubts that there was Russian momentum towards a peace deal.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Another solid reading would bode well for the small economy, though investors will watch for signs that export momentum is easing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Pioneer 1 arced through space until, sixty thousand miles out, not quite one-quarter of the way, it lost momentum and dropped back, burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

When particles with intermediate momenta emerge from this plasma, they can inherit collective motion from the quarks that make them up.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Romping the go-pedal at highway speeds initiates a wild, jaw-clenching acceleration event, a Nantucket sleigh ride of instantaneous momenta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

On the other hand, what momenta of true religious thought have these ideals embraced?

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton

"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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