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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Immediate \Im*me"di*ate\, a. [F. imm['e]diat. See {In-} not and {Mediate}.] 1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close as immediate contact You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. ``Assemble we immediate council.'' --Shak. Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. --Milton. 3. 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. --Sir. W. Hamilton. {Immediate amputation} (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away Syn: Proximate; close direct; next From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: immediate adj 1: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: {contiguous}] 2: having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence" [ant: {mediate}] 3: immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble" 4: of the present time and place "the immediate revisions" 5: performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: {prompt}, {quick}, {straightaway}]
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