Moment

{
  "id": "MLC-T-MET-007391",
  "term": "Moment",
  "field": "Meteorology and atmospheric science",
  "definition": "A measure of the tendency of a force to cause rotation about a point or axis, or a statistical measure describing the shape of a distribution. In meteorology, it can refer to the moment of inertia in rotational dynamics or statistical moments like mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis of atmospheric variables. The first moment of a probability distribution is its mean.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/meteorology/moment/"
}