immediate
/ɪˈmiː.dɪət/ · adj
Meaning
- Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- Very close; direct or adjacent.
- Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
- Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
- An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
Etymology / origin
From Old French immediat (French immédiat), borrowed from Late Latin immediātus (“without in-between, moderation”), from Latin in + mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to halve, to be in the middle”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, im- + mediate.
- in(Latin)→
- immediātus(la-lat)→
- immédiat(French)→
- immediat(fro)→
- immediate (English)
- Relations: der, cog, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- άμεσος(Greek) (cog)
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