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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.</def>

<blockquote>Impending death is thine, and <b>instant</b> doom. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Present; current.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>instant</b> time is always the fittest time. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The word in this sense is now used only in dates, to indicate the current month; as, the tenth of July <i>instant</i>.</note>

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<hw>In"stant</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Instantly.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Instant</b> he flew with hospitable haste. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>In"stant</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>instant</ets>, fr. L. <ets>instans</ets> standing by, being near, present. See <er>Instant</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.</def>

<blockquote>There is scarce an <b>instant</b> between their flourishing and their not being. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A day of the present or current month; <as>as, the sixth <ex>instant</ex>; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month <ex>instant</ex>, i. e., the current month</as>. See <er>Instant</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, 3.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Moment; flash; second.</syn>

<h1>Instantaneity</h1> <Xpage=771>

<hw>In*stan`ta*ne"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>instantan\'82it\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>Quality of being instantaneous.</def>

<i>Shenstone.</i>

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<hw>In`stan*ta"ne*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>instantan\'82</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; <as>as, the passage of electricity appears to be <ex>instantaneous</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>His reason saw With <b>instantaneous</b> view, the truth of things. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>At or during a given instant; <as>as, <ex>instantaneous</ex> acceleration, velocity, etc.</as></def>

<cs><col>Instantaneous center of rotation</col> <fld>(Kinematics)</fld>, <cd>in a plane or in a plane figure which has motions both of translation and of rotation in the plane, is the point which for the instant is at rest.</cd> -- <col>Instantaneous axis of rotation</col> <fld>(Kinematics)</fld>, <cd>in a body which has motions both of translation and rotation, is a line, which is supposed to be rigidly united with the body, and which for the instant is at rest. The motion of the body is for the instant simply that of rotation about the instantaneous axis.</cd></cs>

-- <wordforms><wf>In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>In`stan*ta"ne*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Instanter</h1> <Xpage=771>

<hw>In*stan"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[L., vehemently, earnestly. See <er>Instant</er>, <tt>n.</tt> & <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>Immediately; instantly; at once; <as>as, he left <ex>instanter</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Instantly</h1> <Xpage=771>

<hw>In"stant*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.</def>