Momentum vs Tomentum - What's the difference?
momentum | tomentum |
(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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(botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
(zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
(anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.
As nouns the difference between momentum and tomentum
is that momentum is (physics) (of a body in motion) the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity while tomentum is (botany) a mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.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.
