| momentum | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. impulse, momentum | an impelling force or strength.; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" |
| ~ forcefulness, force, strength | physical energy or intensity.; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. momentum | the product of a body's mass and its velocity.; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities" |
| ~ physical property | any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions. |
| ~ angular momentum | the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation.; "any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass"; "angular momentum makes the world go round" |
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