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immediate (happening instantly with no delay)In physics, instantaneous can mean at a specific instant (an unmeasurably short time period) — such as "instantaneous velocity".
- Relief was instantaneous.
instantaneous = immediate
- Communications between earth and a spacecraft are not instantaneous.
- She was in a car crash and died instantaneously.
- Symptoms of a heart attack usually come on gradually, and are rarely instantaneous.
- The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- I tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- May I never come back if he wasn't killed instantaneously.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- ...we teach them to fling themselves into holes as quick as lightning before the shells with instantaneous fuses;Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The District Commissioner changed instantaneously.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- In small towns, news is nearly instantaneous.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- I swear his death was instantaneous—a lightning stroke.Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
- When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- It is seemingly instantaneous at last.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Here is an instantaneous photograph one of our boys got of the battle; it's for sale on every news-stand.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Billy's reflexes were very good and his reaction was instantaneous.Stephen King -- Carrie
- For then instantaneously we became young ladies possessed of a certain manner.Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
- Only a few molecules would kill instantaneously...... The hood lay flush against the surface of the lab table.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
instantaneous = without any delay
instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)
instantaneous = without any delay
instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)
instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
instantaneously = immediately (in an instant)
instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)
instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)
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