All 3 Uses of
instantaneous
in
Oliver Twist
- Mr. Bumble instantaneously turned back his collar again; laid his hat and stick upon a chair; and drew another chair up to the table.†
Chpt 23 *instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
- The glance was instantaneous.†
Chpt 48instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
- For two or three months, he contented himself with hinting that he feared the air began to disagree with him; then, finding that the place really no longer was, to him, what it had been, he settled his business on his assistant, took a bachelor's cottage outside the village of which his young friend was pastor, and instantaneously recovered.†
Chpt 53instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
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".