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instanˈtaneously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an instantaneous manner.
1. In an instant, in a moment; without any perceptible interval between beginning and completion.
1644Digby Mans Soul xi. (1645) 117 margin, All pure spirits doe worke instantaneously. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 156 The Angels..Move Instantaneously from Space to Space, Thought is not quick enough to keep their Pace. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) II. xxxii. 303 Lady L. is, or seems to be, instantaneously reformed. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. iii. 242 A vast portion of the sun's rays..can pass instantaneously through a thick sheet of water. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxii, The Florentines..instantaneously rushed between him and his captor.
2. In or at the particular instant.
1849Herschel Outl. Astron. xiii. (1858) 450 It does not follow..that the ellipse thus instantaneously determined will have the same elements as that similarly determined from the arc described in either the previous or the subsequent instant. |