All 4 Uses
instantaneous
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- There was no brief fragment of time in which the action occurred; change was instantaneous, almost as if there was no movement at all.†
Book 3instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
- Embarrassed, I half-stepped away in another instantaneous movement.†
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- I wish treating humans were this instantaneously gratifying.†
Book 3 *instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
- The two vampires were at his side instantaneously, looking precisely the same as the last time I'd met them.†
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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".