Adjective

(en adjective)

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

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Adjective

(-)

Occurring]], [[arise, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.

* 1631 , William Twisse, A discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie , ch. 6, p. 223,

This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift.

* 1766 , , The Vicar of Wakefield , ch. 14.

However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more instantaneous friendship.

* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 57,

The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew.

* 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 4,

It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.

* 2007 , Spector jury given graphic account of actress 'murder' Times Online , London, 30 May (retrieved 13 July 2007),

He said that the bullet went through her head, severed her spine and death would have been almost instantaneous .