Definition of instant

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

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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..
Instanter :: Instanter (a.) Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter..
Instant :: Instant (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
Eupryion :: Eupryion (n.) A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match..
Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..
Instant :: Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
File :: File (n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant..
Incontinent :: Incontinent (adv.) Incontinently; instantly immediately.
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..
Instant :: Instant (a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment..
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.
Immediately :: Immediately (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.
Twinkling :: Twinkling (n.) The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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..
Point :: Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge..
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..
Sudden :: Sudden (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy..
Run :: Run (a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
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..
Now :: Now (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now..
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