Momentum vs Puissance - What's the difference?
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(physics) (of a body in motion) The tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.
The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events. (i.e: a moment)
* 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
* 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower
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Power, might or potency.
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* 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 66:
The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
As nouns the difference between momentum and puissance
is that momentum is (of a body in motion) The tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity while puissance is power, might or potency.momentum
English
(wikipedia momentum)Noun
(en-noun)- The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
- Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
puissance
English
Noun
(-)- We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
- Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script.
