Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous.
- adj. Done or made as quickly or directly as possible: an instantaneous reply to my letter.
- adj. Present or occurring at a specific instant: instantaneous velocity; instantaneous pressure.
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).
Wiktionary
- adj. Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time.
- adj. At or during a given instant
WordNet 3.0
- adj. occurring with no delay
Etymologies
- New Latin, 17th century (Wiktionary)
- From Medieval Latin īnstantāneus, from Latin īnstāns, īnstant-, present; see instant. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“We desire to speak of those photographic apparatus called instantaneous shutters.”
“Accordingly, Birchcliff encourages its shareholders to focus on quarterly average production rates and not short term instantaneous production numbers that are very high but not sustainable.”
“Other than that, the overall evacuation of * three million* in instantaneous order was quite well done.]”
“All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects (the events at the time generally dubious): so that they abound not only in critical situations, but with what may be called instantaneous descriptions and reflections (proper to be brought home to the breast of the youthful reader;) as also with affecting conversations; many of them written in the dialogue or dramatic way.”
“You are attempting to leave heat capacity out of the discussion, nad arguig that temperature increases shoudl be instantaneous, which is absurd.”
“Now quantum physics has moved us to a more uncanny realization: that at some level this commonality extends to what can be described as an instantaneous mutual awareness among all particles, regardless of the distance of separation.”
“All other values which very continuously and, thus, are different at any time are called instantaneous values and are designated by u (or i).”
“The so-called instantaneous or asymmetric short-circuit current involves high electrodynamic loads for the installation parts immediately on its occurence.”
4. Power transmission and distribution in power supply systems
“I tremble even now as I recall the instantaneous effect of those words.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘instantaneous’.
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Impressionism
Words that describe the art of the impressionist era.
seascapes, landscapes, modern, impression, impressionist, contemporary, flicker, sensation, modernity, perceived, perceiving, momentary and 142 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 153 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tandem repeat
Words that have an adjacent repeat of three or more letters. I've omitted most words ending in "-inging" where both g's are hard. I've excluded words composed solely of repeats and the plurals of t...
nonsense, chihuahua, sesterterpene, ovotestes, furfuraceous, borborygmi, materteral, tintinnabulating, syringing, zinging, purpurate, seismism and 154 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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tralala's Words
arch, enigmatic, inexplicable, captivating, merry, advantageous, appropriate, compelling, alluring, wicked, inept, douse and 200 more...
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5yllable5's Words
educational, hydroelectric, kapiolani, kamehameha, serendipitous, procrastination, abomination, inexplicable, hypothetical, tyrannosaurus, miscellaneous, disingenuous and 79 more...
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Enchancey.
naturally, easily, unlimited, aware, realizing, experiencing, before, during, after, among, expand, beyond and 31 more...
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Malakaiii's Words
anemone, miasma, sardonic, bludgeon, instantaneous, bastardization, bibliophile, catharsis, superfluous, heliotrope
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