Definition of instant

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Instant (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

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Run :: Run (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body..
Instantaneous :: Instantaneous (a.) At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc..
Foothot :: Foothot (adv.) Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
Instanter :: Instanter (a.) Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter..
Instant :: Instant (adv.) Instantly.
Instant :: Instant (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
Element :: Element (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former..
Instantly :: Instantly (adv.) Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.
Instant :: Instant (a.) Present; current.
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..
Immediate :: Immediate (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
Roll :: Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal..
Trice :: Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking..
Now :: Now (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now..
Instantaneity :: Instantaneity (n.) Quality of being instantaneous.
Translation :: Translation (n.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..
Jiffy :: "Jiffy (n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy..
Instance :: Instance (n.) That which is instant or urgent; motive.
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