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Definition of Instants
1. instant [n] - See also: instant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instants
Literary usage of Instants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Still, the necessary freedom was supposed to be secured by interchanges of ions
between molecules at the instants of molecular collision only; ..."
2. Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the Elucidation of Their Ancient and by Raja Rājendralāla Mitra (1881)
"Its length from the heel to the end of the great toe should be sixteen instants.
The arm of twenty-four instants is reckoned the most apropriate. ..."
3. A Grammar of the Hindi Language: In which are Treated the Standard Hindí by Samuel Henry Kellogg (1876)
"The principal variety differs frpm all metres of the 1st species in that both
lines contain 30 instants. The 6th foot must be a jagan, as in the 1st line of ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... blow it out on the extended palm, where it forms a spiral column, which it
takes a few instants to evaporate. The glands are not pricked, and the throat ..."
5. The Maidens of the Rocks by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1898)
"which endured for a few instants, then they paled, became violet-colored,
indistinct, confused, blotted out. Last of all the lofty apex of the Corace ..."
6. Studies in the History of Ideas by Columbia University Dept. of Philosophy (1918)
"instants are temporal points, and like those of space, they are perfectly objective
and real—not created, but actually discovered or waiting to be ..."
7. Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions 601 B.C. to A.D. 1 at Five-day and Ten ...by Bryant Tuckerman by Bryant Tuckerman (1990)
"The tabular instants, ie, the instants for which positions are given in these
... For interpolation, it is convenient to express the desired instants, ..."
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