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Word entry · 8 letters

momentum

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"Forward drive"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/Part of speech nounSorted emmmnotuStarts with MEnds with M1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the product of a body's mass and its velocity

Word origin

From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...

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