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coinstantaneous

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Happening at the same instant; coincident in moment of time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Happening at the same instant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Happening at the same instant.

Etymologies

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co- +‎ instantaneous

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Examples

  • The flash was almost coinstantaneous in the two rings, but it was just perceptible first in the anterior one.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The flash was almost coinstantaneous in the two rings, but it was just perceptible first in the anterior one.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers; but this cannot happen from anything like voluntary action with the ovules, or the confervae, nor is it probable among the infusoria.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers; but this cannot happen from anything like voluntary action with the ovules, or the confervae, nor is it probable among the infusoria.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • For it appears that when the Soul predicates numerical unity it does so in virtue of nothing else than such coinstantaneous perception [of one object, in one instant, by one energeia]: while it predicates specific unity in virtue of [the unity of] the discriminating faculty of sense together with [the unity of] the mode in which this operates.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Therefore, if coinstantaneous perception of the latter be impossible, that of the former is a fortiori impossible.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Accordingly, when they have not been mixed, the actualized perceptions which perceive them will be two; but [if so, their perception must be successive not coinstantaneous, for] in one and the same faculty the perception actualized at any single moment is necessarily one, only one stimulation or exertion of a single faculty being possible at a single instant, and in the case supposed here the faculty is one.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Accordingly, when they have not been mixed, the actualized perceptions which perceive them will be two; but [if so, their perception must be successive not coinstantaneous, for] in one and the same faculty the perception actualized at any single moment is necessarily one, only one stimulation or exertion of a single faculty being possible at a single instant, and in the case supposed here the faculty is one.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • For it appears that when the Soul predicates numerical unity it does so in virtue of nothing else than such coinstantaneous perception [of one object, in one instant, by one energeia]: while it predicates specific unity in virtue of [the unity of] the discriminating faculty of sense together with [the unity of] the mode in which this operates.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Therefore, if coinstantaneous perception of the latter be impossible, that of the former is a fortiori impossible.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

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