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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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Figma lifted its full-year revenue outlook to roughly $1.5 billion, citing its product momentum as well as improvements in AI cost efficiencies.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

It meant neither man was able to build on the momentum generated by their epic victories.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Chief Executive Meredith Kopit Levien said the quarter marked sustained momentum, with subscriber growth driven by strong engagement and retention across the company’s portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The debate over permanent daylight saving time has gained momentum in Washington, D.C.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The rats would swing the cord round and round, gaining momentum until, judging the right direction, they loosed the cord.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

"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

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

And now, the question with which we are more immediately concerned is, what were the specific and valuable results attained by the Athenian mind in religion and philosophy, the two momenta of the human mind?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

"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

They may, notwithstanding, be very unequal in weight, but they must be so situated, that, if set in motion, their momentums would be equal.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones


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