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point-instant en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The smallest unit of space-time; a particular point along the continua of space and time.
    • But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 57:

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point-instants Number=Plur lexicographic