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point-instant

noun

point-instant

noun
1

Human sciences, Natural sciences, Philosophy, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences 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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