ꜣt

Noun

 * 1) particular point in time, moment
 * 2) span of time in general, time, while
 * 3)  approximately a minute
 * 1)  approximately a minute
 * 1)  approximately a minute

Noun

 * 1)  striking power, readiness or ferocity to strike

Usage notes
While Erman and Grapow note an additional meaning of as a ‘head ornament’, Gardiner convincingly argues that this is based on a misinterpretation of passages where it means ‘readiness to strike’. Gardiner also suggests that the ‘moment, time’ sense of is not independent, but developed from the ‘readiness to strike’ sense by way of reference to the suddenness or speed of a strike. Allen instead takes the ‘moment’ meaning as primary, rendering the ‘readiness to strike’ sense as ‘moment of rage’.

This word is sometimes used in parallel to. In other passages it appears in an exactly parallel context to : compare PT 474 against PT 306 in the Pyramid Texts.