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instantaneous /ˌɪnst(ə)nˈteɪnɪəs /adjective1Occurring or done instantly: modern methods of instantaneous communication her reaction was almost instantaneous...- This death would have been rapid, almost instantaneous.
- 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.
- Once airborne I could immediately feel the aircraft's sensitivity because every change in height and direction is instantaneous.
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 2 Physics Existing or measured at a particular instant: measurement of the instantaneous velocity...- Mass, instantaneous velocity, acceleration, magnetic forces, and energy puzzled them much more.
- Also in line with experimental measurements, the examination of instantaneous velocity of simulated beads shows that pause time decreases with increasing wall shear stress.
- Owing to the intermittent nature of turbulence, we related individual predation events to local, instantaneous relative velocities instead of bulk averages.
Derivativesinstantaneousness /ˌɪnst(ə)nˈteɪnɪəsnəs / noun ...- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
OriginMid 17th century: from medieval Latin instantaneus, from Latin instant- 'being at hand' (from the verb instare), on the pattern of ecclesiastical Latin momentaneus. Rhymescontemporaneous, cutaneous, extemporaneous, extraneous, miscellaneous, Pausanias, porcellaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous, subcutaneous |