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Definition of instantaneous in English: instantaneousadjective ˌɪnst(ə)nˈteɪnɪəsˌɪnstənˈteɪniəs 1Occurring or done instantly. modern methods of instantaneous communication her reaction was almost instantaneous Example sentencesExamples - With the instantaneous and free flow of information brought about by the Internet and other technological innovations what happens in, say, a remote part of Kalimantan or New York could reach Jakarta in a matter of minutes.
- Once airborne I could immediately feel the aircraft's sensitivity because every change in height and direction is instantaneous.
- It's that instantaneous direction change, the wheel-shredding asphalt grind that cooks up this sure winner on the attention-o-meter.
- Yet mathematicians were able to revolutionize the subject by inventing a whole new language of mathematics which was capable of expressing instantaneous change: that language was the calculus.
- This is because the travel time of light, although very rapid, is not instantaneous.
- The old USSR was run by men who did not see the abject and instantaneous murder of civilians as a reason to celebrate.
- Inertia precludes limbs from making sharp directional changes or instantaneous starts and stops.
- Technology must be developed to make the transactions instantaneous.
- The instantaneous hostility of France to the second UN resolution proposed by Britain and America was presented last week as a brave moral stand by the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin.
- What was needed was a new, direct democracy with more instantaneous feedback to guide the political class.
- This is an improvement over earlier systems that depended on the use of a stand-alone gas detector with alarm, which experts had to monitor continuously so that the reaction to any malfunction could be instantaneous.
- This death would have been rapid, almost instantaneous.
- Companies could efficiently share and distribute information, providing a faster decision-making process, effective internal communications and instantaneous feedback.
- Best practices at this point suggest rapid, but not instantaneous, installation of vendor packages.
- The Empires disappeared suddenly, as though in an instantaneous catastrophe.
- All of these, by virtue of the information age, are characterized today by rapid change and often instantaneous awareness.
- The technology must be developed to make the transacting of money instantaneous.
- Figure 2 demonstrates a rapid but not instantaneous decrease in elongation of primary roots of lupin when pressure was applied to entire axes.
- Being that he was from around these parts, his sense of direction was almost instantaneous.
- What Barsamian's questions provoke is an eloquent and desperate plea for direct, instantaneous action.
Synonyms immediate, instant, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning sudden, hurried, hasty, precipitate, abrupt informal snappy, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick) literary fleet, rathe rare alacritous 2Physics Existing or measured at a particular instant. measurement of the instantaneous velocity Example sentencesExamples - The first instantaneous velocity equal to or greater than 10 mm/s defined the beginning of the movement.
- Owing to the intermittent nature of turbulence, we related individual predation events to local, instantaneous relative velocities instead of bulk averages.
- Also in line with experimental measurements, the examination of instantaneous velocity of simulated beads shows that pause time decreases with increasing wall shear stress.
- No object could acquire an instantaneous velocity of, let us say, 10 metres per second, at an instant of time t, while having zero velocity at all times surrounding t and thus failing to move any distance.
- Mass, instantaneous velocity, acceleration, magnetic forces, and energy puzzled them much more.
Derivatives nounˌɪnst(ə)nˈteɪnɪəsnəs These traits are: collective autism, bombast of presentation to the point of unreality, moral narcissism, a chronic lack of sober foresight, and total immersion in instantaneousness. Example sentencesExamples - All this demands from the dancer openness and vulnerability to the instantaneousness of the moment, much more than in the process of a choreographed performance.
- The sight, and the instantaneousness of it, made her feel ill.
- What he was hankering after had to approximate the instantaneousness of painting - the fact that paintings are seen all at once, in a resonant ‘now’ - and simultaneously had to evoke a particular medium of painting.
- Terms such as rapid deployment, power projection, and mobilization all connote an element of instantaneousness in warfare.
Origin Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin instantaneus, from Latin instant- 'being at hand' (from the verb instare), on the pattern of ecclesiastical Latin momentaneus. Rhymes contemporaneous, cutaneous, extemporaneous, extraneous, miscellaneous, Pausanias, porcellaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous, subcutaneous Definition of instantaneous in US English: instantaneousadjectiveˌinstənˈtānēəsˌɪnstənˈteɪniəs 1Occurring or done in an instant or instantly. modern methods of instantaneous communication her reaction was almost instantaneous Example sentencesExamples - This is an improvement over earlier systems that depended on the use of a stand-alone gas detector with alarm, which experts had to monitor continuously so that the reaction to any malfunction could be instantaneous.
- Figure 2 demonstrates a rapid but not instantaneous decrease in elongation of primary roots of lupin when pressure was applied to entire axes.
- The technology must be developed to make the transacting of money instantaneous.
- Once airborne I could immediately feel the aircraft's sensitivity because every change in height and direction is instantaneous.
- This death would have been rapid, almost instantaneous.
- With the instantaneous and free flow of information brought about by the Internet and other technological innovations what happens in, say, a remote part of Kalimantan or New York could reach Jakarta in a matter of minutes.
- The instantaneous hostility of France to the second UN resolution proposed by Britain and America was presented last week as a brave moral stand by the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin.
- The Empires disappeared suddenly, as though in an instantaneous catastrophe.
- What was needed was a new, direct democracy with more instantaneous feedback to guide the political class.
- Best practices at this point suggest rapid, but not instantaneous, installation of vendor packages.
- Companies could efficiently share and distribute information, providing a faster decision-making process, effective internal communications and instantaneous feedback.
- This is because the travel time of light, although very rapid, is not instantaneous.
- Technology must be developed to make the transactions instantaneous.
- Inertia precludes limbs from making sharp directional changes or instantaneous starts and stops.
- All of these, by virtue of the information age, are characterized today by rapid change and often instantaneous awareness.
- It's that instantaneous direction change, the wheel-shredding asphalt grind that cooks up this sure winner on the attention-o-meter.
- What Barsamian's questions provoke is an eloquent and desperate plea for direct, instantaneous action.
- The old USSR was run by men who did not see the abject and instantaneous murder of civilians as a reason to celebrate.
- Yet mathematicians were able to revolutionize the subject by inventing a whole new language of mathematics which was capable of expressing instantaneous change: that language was the calculus.
- Being that he was from around these parts, his sense of direction was almost instantaneous.
Synonyms immediate, instant, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning 2Physics Existing or measured at a particular instant. measurement of the instantaneous velocity Example sentencesExamples - Owing to the intermittent nature of turbulence, we related individual predation events to local, instantaneous relative velocities instead of bulk averages.
- The first instantaneous velocity equal to or greater than 10 mm/s defined the beginning of the movement.
- Also in line with experimental measurements, the examination of instantaneous velocity of simulated beads shows that pause time decreases with increasing wall shear stress.
- Mass, instantaneous velocity, acceleration, magnetic forces, and energy puzzled them much more.
- No object could acquire an instantaneous velocity of, let us say, 10 metres per second, at an instant of time t, while having zero velocity at all times surrounding t and thus failing to move any distance.
Origin Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin instantaneus, from Latin instant- ‘being at hand’ (from the verb instare), on the pattern of ecclesiastical Latin momentaneus. |