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momentum

[moh-men-tuhm] / moʊˈmɛn təm /


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As the push to use HSI’s tech to search voter information gained momentum, a new problem emerged.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Nvidia stock is up more than 12% in August and a push into robotics could maintain the momentum.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Every time there’s momentum there’s a self-inflicted setback.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

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

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

I needed to get some momentum going so that I wasn’t just sitting with my feet dangling in the puddle below me.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

But if the particles have opposite momenta, they stay distinct, so the operation creates a genuine and reversible change.

From Scientific American Mar. 29, 2022

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

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

Pulleys act then on the same principle as the lever; the deficiency of weight in the power, being compensated by its superior velocity, so as to make their momentums equal.

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




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