momentum
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an impelling force or strength
the car's momentum carried it off the road
Types & categories
- forcefulness hypernym
Sense 2 noun
the product of a body's mass and its velocity
the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities
Types & categories
- physical property hypernym
- angular momentum hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | forcefulness |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | physical property |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | angular momentum |