Instantaneous

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  • adjective. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay.
  • adjective. Done or made as quickly or directly as possible.
  • adjective. Present or occurring at a specific instant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Done or produced in an instant; occurring or acting without any perceptible lapse of time.
  • In mech., existing in or referring to an instant of time; momentary: as, instantaneous position, displacement, velocity, acceleration, etc. (that is, the position, etc., at any instant).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time.
  • adjective. At or during a given instant
  • adjective. in a plane or in a plane figure which has motions both of translation and of rotation in the plane, is the point which for the instant is at rest.
  • adjective. in a body which has motions both of translation and rotation, is a line, which is supposed to be rigidly united with the body, and which for the instant is at rest. The motion of the body is for the instant simply that of rotation about the instantaneous axis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. occurring with no delay
  • Word Usage
    "Academic bloggers find that their community of readers often act as fact-checkers or engage the blogger in instantaneous debate over specific points before the book reaches the concretized state of print."
    Equivalent
    fast  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aeneas  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alert  apt  brief  compact  compendious  
    unknown
    immediate