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mo·men·tar·y

(mō′mən-tĕr′ē)

adj.

1. Lasting for only a moment.

2. Occurring or present at every moment: in momentary fear of being exposed.

3. Short-lived or ephemeral, as a life.

[Middle English momentare, from Latin mōmentārius, from mōmentum, moment; see moment.]

mo′men·tar′i·ness n.

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momentary

(ˈməʊməntərɪ; -trɪ)

adj

lasting for only a moment; temporary

ˈmomentariness n

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mo•men•tar•y

(ˈmoʊ mənˌtɛr i)

adj.

1. lasting but a moment; very brief.

2. that might occur at any moment: to live in fear of momentary annihilation.

3. effective or recurring constantly.

[1425–75; late Middle English < Latin mōmentārius.]

mo′men•tar`i•ness, n.

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Adj.

momentary - lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous

short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"

momentary

adjective short-lived, short, brief, temporary, passing, quick, fleeting, hasty, transitory a momentary lapse of concentration
lasting, permanent, lengthy, long-lived

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momentary

adjective

1. Lasting or existing only for a short time:

ephemeral, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory.

2. About to occur at any moment:

imminent, impending, proximate.

Translations

مُؤَقَتٌ مُؤَقَّت

chvilkovýpřechodný

flygtigmomentan

hetkellinen

trenutačan

pillanatnyi

augnabliks-

momentaneo momentaneamente

瞬間の

순간의

kortstondig

forbigående kortvarig

chwilowy

momentâneo

моментальный

chvíľkový

tillfällig

ชั่วครู่

bir anlık

tạm thời

倾刻的瞬间的

momentary

[ˈməʊməntərɪ] ADJ [hesitation, silence, weakness] → momentáneo; [feeling] → pasajero
there was a momentary calm → hubo un momento de calma

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

momentary

[ˈməʊməntəri] adj → momentané(e)moment of truth n (= crunch) → moment m de vérité

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

momentary

adj → kurz; glimpse also → flüchtig; lapse of memory/concentration → momentan, vorübergehend; a momentary feeling of nausea → eine momentane Übelkeit; there was a momentary silence → einen Augenblick lang herrschte Stille

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

momentary

[ˈməʊmənt/ərɪ] adj → momentaneo/a, passeggero/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

moment

(ˈməumənt) noun

1. a very short space of time. I'll be ready in a moment; after a few moments' silence.

2. a particular point in time. At that moment, the telephone rang.

ˈmomentary adjective

lasting for only a moment. a momentary feeling of fear.

ˈmomentarily ((American) moumənˈte-) adverb

moˈmentous (-ˈmen-) adjective

of great importance. a momentous event.

moˈmentously adverb

at the moment

at this particular time; now. She's rather busy at the moment.

the moment (that)

exactly when. I want to see him the moment he arrives.

momentary

→ مُؤَقَتٌ přechodný momentan momentan στιγμιαίος momentáneo hetkellinen momentané trenutačan momentaneo 瞬間の 순간의 kortstondig kortvarig chwilowy momentâneo моментальный tillfällig ชั่วครู่ bir anlık tạm thời 瞬间的

momentary

a. momentáneo-a.

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This set of particulars may be called a "momentary thing." To define that series of "momentary things" that constitute the successive states of one thing is a problem involving the laws of dynamics.

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A momentary change passed over the blank terror of her face.

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The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.

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But even if- imagining a man quite exempt from all influences, examining only his momentary action in the present, unevoked by any cause- we were to admit so infinitely small a remainder of inevitability as equaled zero, we should even then not have arrived at the conception of complete freedom in man, for a being uninfluenced by the external world, standing outside of time and independent of cause, is no longer a man.

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The smiling lips tensed to the nervous shock of a momentary agony which the conscious mind never apprehended, and then the dead sank limply back into that deepest of slumbers from which there is no awakening.

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If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not enough of capacity in you--nor even for idling!

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Then he caught a glimpse, through the darkness of that charnel-house, of the still brilliant eye of his friend, to whom the momentary lifting of the mass restored a momentary respiration.

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Even the momentary delay of entering one of the reception-rooms was more than he could endure at that moment.

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"She never even let you catch a momentary glance at her face?"

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The flare was momentary, followed by black darkness, in which, however, the apparition still showed white and motionless; then by insensible degrees it faded and vanished, like a bright image on the retina after the closing of the eyes.

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If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr.

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After a momentary doubt, I decided on executing the new commission.

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