turning | act of changing in practice or custom, the law took many turnings over the years |
avoidance turning away shunning dodging | deliberately avoiding, keeping away from or preventing from happening |
turn turning | the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course, he took a turn to the right |
dislocation breakdown | the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue, the social dislocations resulting from government policies, his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London |
turning | the activity of shaping something on a lathe |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
tail rotor anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
torque converter | converter for transmitting and amplifying torque (especially by hydraulic means) |
torque wrench | a wrench that has a gauge that indicates the amount of torque being applied |
turning | the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe |
consequence import moment | having important effects or influence, decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself, virtue is of more moment than security, that result is of no consequence |
senior moment | a momentary lapse of memory (especially in older people) |
breakdown partitioning | an analysis into mutually exclusive categories |
moment | the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value |
arithmetic mean first moment expectation expected value | the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values |
second moment | the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin |
product-moment correlation coefficient Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related |
table tipping table tilting table turning table lifting | manipulation of a table during a seance, attributed to spirits |
turning turn | a movement in a new direction, the turning of the wind |
landmark turning point watershed | an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend, the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations |
breakdown equipment failure | a cessation of normal operation, there was a power breakdown |
turning | a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe |
moment of inertia | the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration |
moment | a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) |
moment of a couple | given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them |
dipole moment | the moment of a dipole |
electric dipole moment | the dipole moment in an electric dipole |
magnetic dipole moment | (physics) a current loop gives rise to a magnetic field characteristic of a magnetic dipole, An orbiting electron in an atom will have a magnetic dipole moment |
magnetic moment moment of a magnet | the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field |
torsion torque | a twisting force |
moment magnitude scale | a logarithmic scale of to(a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake |
breakdown crack-up | a mental or physical breakdown |
nervous breakdown | a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder |
here and now present moment moment | at this time, the disappointments of the here and now, she is studying at the moment |
moment minute second instant | a particular point in time, the moment he arrived the party began |
moment of truth | a crucial moment on which much depends |
moment of truth | the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull |
psychological moment | the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect |
moment mo minute second bit | an indefinitely short time, wait just a moment, in a mo, it only takes a minute, in just a bit |
spur-of-the-moment | in response to an unforeseen need, a spur-of-the-moment party |
for the moment for the time being | temporarily, we'll stop for the time being |
on the spur of the moment suddenly | on impulse, without premeditation, he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment, he made up his mind suddenly |