What is the meaning of immediate?

adjective

  • Of the present time and place.
    • usage: "the immediate revisions"
  • Very close or connected in space or time.
    • usage: "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
  • Having no intervening medium.
    • usage: "an immediate influence"
  • Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect.
    • usage: "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
  • Performed with little or no delay.
    • usage: "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
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