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Momentaneous

Definition: Momentaneous

Momentaneous

Adjective

1. Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Momentaneous

Synonyms: fleeting (adj), fugitive (adj), momentary (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Momentaneous

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Transientness

Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Momentaneous

English words defined with "momentaneous": fleeting, fugitivemomentary. (references)

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Anagrams: Momentaneous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-s-t-u"

-3 letters: amusement, momentoes, momentous, monuments.

-4 letters: anemones, autosome, mementos, momentos, montanes, monument, neonates, omentums, seamount, tonneaus.

-5 letters: aeneous, amounts, anemone, automen, mannose, maumets, meanest, meatmen, memento, momenta, momento, moments, montane, moonset, moutons, neatens, neonate, neuston, nonmeat, noumena, omentum, osteoma, outmans, outseen, someone, soutane, stannum, summate, tonemes, tonneau, uneaten, unmeant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Momentaneous


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6D 65 6E 74 61 6E 65 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 006E 0065 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478179718086678071818785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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