Definition of instant

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

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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..
Instant :: Instant (a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3..
Instantaneous :: Instantaneous (a.) Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous..
Instantly :: Instantly (adv.) With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly.
Instantly :: Instantly (adv.) Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.
Breath :: Breath (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant..
Foothot :: Foothot (adv.) Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
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..
Promt :: Promt (superl.) Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons..
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..
Detonation :: Detonation (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton..
Centrode :: Centrode (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center..
Incontinent :: Incontinent (adv.) Incontinently; instantly immediately.
Glissette :: Glissette (n.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant..
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.
Moment :: Moment (n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment..
Autochronograph :: Autochronograph (n.) An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.
Present :: Present (a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.
Now :: Now (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now..
Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..
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