Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time. [from 17th c.]
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This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift.
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1631, William Twisse, chapter VI, in A Discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie, page 223:
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The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew, instead of the aunt; [...]
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1813 January 26, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 262:
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I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.
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1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, pages 68–69:
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The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.
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1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
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He said that the bullet went through her head, severed her spine and death would have been almost instantaneous.
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2007 May 30, “Spector jury given graphic account of actress ‘murder’”, in The Times[1], London, retrieved 13 July 2007: