"A moment" is a medieval unit of time equal to what?

Interesting! Thank you.

Next time someone asks me to give them a moment, I will be able to time it! 😆

interesting! I didn't know that!

So when someone says “give me a few moments to…” they are really saying “give me a couple of minutes”. Fun trivia!

I didn't know it was mideval

Cool beans! Next time I'll say Just give me a minute & a half please

I didn't know that either. knowledge is the key to living on this big blue marble

Confusing! 🤯

The concept of a "moment" in medieval timekeeping is related to even older ideas from Roman and Greek timekeeping. The Romans divided the day into 12 hours from sunrise to sunset, but they also had smaller units like the "uncia" (1/12th of an hour), which influenced later medieval timekeeping. The word momentum (from Latin movere, meaning "to move") originally referred to movement rather than time. Its meaning as "a brief period" came later, while in physics today, momentum still refers to movement (mass × velocity). So, the word "moment" has had quite a journey through history

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interesting! i initially thought of moment in engineering.

I thought a moment was 7 seconds!

Sundials are ancient not medieval

next timme someone asks me one moment a I will now what it means

Did not know, that there is a medieval unit like this. Everyone I know refer to a

BiGuy, Or perhaps time candles. 😉

now I know the meaning of "a moment". this is an AHA moment for me

I thought it was five minutes cause we are different

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very interesting. next time someone says "just a moment." I'm going to time them and let that person know too.

interesting. I had to do 50/50 because I wasn't certain

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Great 👍

Like if you got it wrong

i was wrong 🙁

we will be able to read 📚

i need 30 seconds more .

If it was cloudy out, they must have relied on sands in glass

Thank you, learning so much on here.

the use of sun dial

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