Definition of Instantaneous

Instantaneous

Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous.

At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc.

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Instantaneous Quotations

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
Audre Lorde

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Leon Kass

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
Anthony Doerr

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.
Andy Gibb

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
John Hall

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
George Cuvier

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Robert Frank

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Instantaneous Translations

instantaneous in German is Momentan, augenblicklich
instantaneous in Norwegian is momentant

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