GBC
Time

Moment

Modern equivalent

90 seconds

A medieval time unit from chronologist Bede dividing an hour into 40 parts (90 seconds).

In medieval computing of solar and liturgical time, a moment was not a poetic figure of speech but a precise chronological fraction equal to 1.5 minutes of actual time.

In the language

In a moment

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