What is "instantaneous"

Usage examples of "instantaneous".

Once in a million uses, the caesura serves as an instantaneous transportation device to a chosen location.

Rattled by the drumroll concussion, shaken bone from bone by the booming reports as the hills rocked and slammed under punishment, Jieret scarcely knew whether the crossbolt ripped over his head, or if wood, feather, and forge-sharpened steel had been reduced by instantaneous immolation.

The gates achieve their instantaneous effect in two ways: they transport the subject through time as well as space, and they supply or absorb energy sufficient to impart equivalent velocity according to the direction of travel.

Our instantaneous transfer is an illusion resulting from the fact that the gates move us through time as well as space.

The grubs had been sternly admonished when they had asked if the same principles might be extended to instantaneous travel.

Its doctrine does not destroy nor explain the presiding and elective power which interprets these assimilated and preserved changes, choosing out such of them as it pleases, that unavoided and incomprehensible power, the hiding place of volition and eternity, whose startling call has often been known, in some dread crisis, to effect an instantaneous restoration of the entire bygone life, making all past events troop through the memory, a swiftly awful cavalcade marching along the fibrous pavement of the brain, while each terrified thought rushes to its ashy window to behold.

There was nothing new here, the only difference being that Simmons had gone in a single white instantaneous blaze, while the departure of Harry Jnr and his mother had been accompanied by twin bomb-bursts.

These Large Arrays of Personas are instantaneous networks, since they are linked by the merci, and the merci operates superluminally.

I would rather entreat each and every one of them to immortalize this approaching, fateful hour in the evolution of a World Spiritual Crusade, by a fresh consecration to their God-given mission, coupled with an instantaneous plan of action, at once so dynamic and decisive, as to wipe out, on the one hand, with one stroke, the deficiencies which have, to no small extent, bogged down the operations of the Crusade on the home front, and tremendously accelerate, on the other, the progress of the triple task, launched, in three continents, and constituting one of its preeminent objectives.

Again Ede pruned his programs, coded them as pure signal, and in a flash of tachyons infinitely faster than light, made the almost instantaneous unfolding of his self to smaller lobes of his brain farther out among the stars.

The instantaneous deaths of many powerful enemies, graziers, members of parliament, members of standing committees, are reported.

Its effect on Reginald justifies some portion of vanity, for it was no less favourable than instantaneous.

I never knew of love until I met Lachlan, an instantaneous attachment that grew stronger each day.

As if by instantaneous yet unvoiced consent, they turned and ran for the doors, Decimus as panicked as the rest.

Though transit time proved all but instantaneous, Dylan considered enough dire possibilities to keep fans of gooey-bloody cinema supplied with trashy films full of pukey moments for at least a generation, and then the last of the lavatory folded away and a new place entirely unfolded into existence around them.