Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun momentum

2 senses of momentum

Sense 1
momentum, impulse -- (an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road")
       => force, forcefulness, strength -- (physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man")

Sense 2
momentum -- (the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities")
       => physical property -- (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)