moment vs pith

moment

noun
  • Weight or importance. 

  • A fit; a brief tantrum. 

  • The smallest portion of time; an instant. 

  • A brief, unspecified amount of time. 

  • A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points. 

  • A petit mal episode; such a spell. 

  • (As in "X moment") An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation. 

  • An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. 

  • A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour. 

pith

noun
  • The essential or vital part; force; energy; importance. 

  • The spinal cord; the marrow. 

  • The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees. 

  • The albedo of a citrus fruit. 

  • The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn. 

  • One divided by pi. 

  • Power, strength, might. 

verb
  • To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). 

  • To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. 

adj
  • The ordinal form of the number pi. 

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