Noun

(uncountable) The act of implicating.

(uncountable) The state of being implicated.

(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)

But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".

Noun

(en noun)

A brief, unspecified amount of time.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,

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, chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith

, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}

The smallest portion of time; an instant.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

Weight or importance.

* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), , 3,7,67:

In deep designs, in matter of great moment , / No less importing than our general good.

* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Second Stain) , (Norton 2005, p.1192)

The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment .

The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.

(label) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

(label) A petit mal episode; such a spell.

(label) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.

(label) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.