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What (who) is Instant - definition

INFINITESIMAL MOMENT IN TIME, A MOMENT WHOSE PASSAGE IS INSTANTANEOUS

Instantaneous; Point in time; Time location; Instantaneity

instant

I. a.

1.

Pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest.

2.

Immediate, quick, instantaneous.

3.

Current, present, now passing.

II. n.

1.

Moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of time.

2.

Time, particular time, hour, moment.

instant

(instants)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

An instant is an extremely short period of time.

For an instant, Catherine was tempted to flee...

The pain disappeared in an instant.

= moment

N-COUNT: usu sing

2.

If you say that something happens at a particular instant, you mean that it happens at exactly the time you have been referring to, and you are usually suggesting that it happens quickly or immediately.

At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness...

= moment

N-SING: with supp, usu at/in N

3.

To do something the instant something else happens means to do it immediately.

I had bolted the door the instant I had seen the bat.

PHRASE [emphasis]

4.

You use instant to describe something that happens immediately.

He had taken an instant dislike to Mortlake.

= immediate

ADJ: usu ADJ n

• instantly

The man was killed instantly...

ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

5.

Instant food is food that you can prepare very quickly, for example by just adding water.

...instant coffee.

ADJ: ADJ n

instant

n. at a certain instant (at that instant I realized who had planned the whole scheme)

Wikipedia

Instant

In physics and the philosophy of science, instant refers to an infinitesimal interval in time, whose passage is instantaneous. In ordinary speech, an instant has been defined as "a point or very short space of time," a notion deriving from its etymological source, the Latin verb instare, from in- + stare ('to stand'), meaning 'to stand upon or near.'

The continuous nature of time and its infinite divisibility was addressed by Aristotle in his Physics, where he wrote on Zeno's paradoxes. The philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell was still seeking to define the exact nature of an instant thousands of years later.

As of October 2020, the smallest time interval certify in regulated measurements is on the order of 397 zeptoseconds (397 × 10⁻²¹ seconds).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant

Examples of use of Instant

1. But in the meantime, all these electronic conveniences lead to instant gratification÷ instant messaging, instant information, instant credit, movies on demand, 5,000 songs in your front pocket.

2. It is about instant consumption and instant gratification.

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4. I know we live in an amoral age where reality TV offers people the chance of instant wealth, an instant spouse, or even an instant course of IVF.

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