Definition of instant

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

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Immediate :: Immediate (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
Trice :: Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Bilocation :: Bilocation (n.) Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
Now :: Now (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now..
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle..
Run :: Run (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body..
Instant :: Instant (a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment..
Jiffy :: "Jiffy (n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy..
Offhand :: Offhand (a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses..
Immediately :: Immediately (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.
Switzer :: Swithe (adv.) Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly.
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..
Foothot :: Foothot (adv.) Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
Instantaneity :: Instantaneity (n.) Quality of being instantaneous.
Everywhen :: Everywhen (adv.) At any or all times; every instant.
Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..
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..
Present :: Present (a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.
Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..
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..
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