momentum
Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
Other meanings
Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
Synonyms
- impulse
Related words
- momenergy
- momentumless
- supermomentum
- angular momentum
- crystal momentum
- four-momentum
- gain momentum
- momentum junkie
- Planck momentum
- pseudomomentum
- quasimomentum
Word history
From Latin "mōmentum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “momentum” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.