having important effects or influence | the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse |
the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness |
a particular point in time | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
an indefinitely short time | the most severe stage of a disease |
at this time | |