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Instantaneity :: Instantaneity (n.) Quality of being instantaneous.

Instant :: Instant (a.) Present; current.

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..

Lead :: Lead (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke..

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..

Instance :: Instance (n.) That which is instant or urgent; motive.

Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..

Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash..

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..

Sudden :: Sudden (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy..

Trice :: Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

Moment :: Moment (n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very 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.

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..

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..

Instant :: Instant (a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment..

Eupryion :: Eupryion (n.) A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match..

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..

Instant :: Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

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