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.
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- adjective Happening at the same
instant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The flash was almost coinstantaneous in the two rings, but it was just perceptible first in the anterior one.
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The flash was almost coinstantaneous in the two rings, but it was just perceptible first in the anterior one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore, if coinstantaneous perception of the latter be impossible, that of the former is a fortiori impossible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore, if coinstantaneous perception of the latter be impossible, that of the former is a fortiori impossible.
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