momentum : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: momentum	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
momentum n an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" Synonym(s): momentum, impulse the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Momentum \Mo*men"tum\, n.; pl. L. {Momenta}, F. {Momentums}. [L. See {Moment}.] 1. (Mech.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus. 2. Essential element, or constituent element. I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate propositions. --Sir W. Hamilton.