All 3 Uses of
instantaneous
in
War and Peace
- When he smiled, his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to ask forgiveness.†
Chpt 1instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
- The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.†
Chpt 2 *
- A lump of snow cannot be melted instantaneously.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(instantaneous) immediate (happening instantly with no delay)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In physics, instantaneous can mean at a specific instant (an unmeasurably short time period) -- such as "instantaneous velocity".