Precious Definition–adjective | 1. | of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals. |
| 2. | highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality: precious memories. |
| 3. | dear; beloved: a precious child. |
| 4. | affectedly or excessively delicate, refined, or nice: precious manners. |
| 5. | flagrant; gross: a precious fool. |
–noun | 6. | a dearly beloved person; darling. |
–adverb | 7. | extremely; very: She wastes precious little time. |
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Moment Definition–noun | 1. | an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment. |
| 2. | the present time or any other particular time (usually prec. by the): He is busy at the moment. |
| 3. | a definite period or stage, as in a course of events; juncture: at this moment in history. |
| 4. | importance or consequence: a decision of great moment. |
| 5. | a particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.: His big moment came in the final game. |
| 6. | Statistics. the mean or expected value of the product formed by multiplying together a set of one or more variates or variables each to a specified power. |
| 7. | Philosophy.
| b. | Obsolete. an essential or constituent factor. |
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| 8. | Mechanics. | a. | a tendency to produce motion, esp. about an axis. |
| b. | the product of a physical quantity and its directed distance from an axis: moment of area; moment of mass. |
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