instantaneous

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/ɪnstənˈteɪni.əs/

adjective

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adjective
Happening immediately, with no noticeable delay.
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adjective
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Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.

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Globalization brought us the possibility of fast and instantaneous communication.
His death was instantaneous.

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This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift.
1631, William Twisse, chapter VI, in A Discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie, page 223
However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more inſtantaneous friendſhip.
1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “Fresh Mortifications, or a Demonstration that Seeming Calamities may be Real Blessings”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire:...
The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew, instead of the aunt; [...]
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 262
I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.
1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, pages 68–69
The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129

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From New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem.