All 4 Uses
instantaneous
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Edited)
- Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses.
p. 100.6instantaneous = immediately (in an instant)
- …we teach them to fling themselves into holes as quick as lightning before the shells with instantaneous fuses;
p. 134.1
- I tell her he was shot through the heart and died instantaneously.
p. 180.6 *
- May I never come back if he wasn't killed instantaneously.
p. 181.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(instantaneous) immediate (happening instantly with no delay)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In physics, instantaneous can mean at a specific instant (an unmeasurably short time period) -- such as "instantaneous velocity".