Immediate /(?)/
Im·me·di·ate
Immediate
a.
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Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
You are the most immediate to our throne.
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Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke.
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Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.
The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.
Phrases & Compounds
- Immediate amputation
- an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.