Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MO-MENT'UM
MO-MENT'OUS-NESSMOM'MER-Y, or MUM'MER-Y
MO-MENT'UM, n. [L.]
In mechanics, impetus; the quantity of motion in a moving body. This is always equal to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity. Encyc.
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