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| im·me·di·ate [ i mdee ət ] |
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1. without pause or delay: happening or done at first, at once, or without delay
  had no immediate comment
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2. nearest: nearest in time, space, or relationship
his immediate family
the immediate future
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3. current: urgent or pressing, and so needing to be dealt with before anything else
the immediate problem
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4. having direct effect: affecting something directly, without anything intervening
the immediate cause
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5. philosophy known from experience: relating to something that is known about from personal experience or by intuition
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6. logic derived from single premise: describes an inference derived from a single premise, without any middle term, and often by conversion of a categorical statement. An example is "some cows are brown, therefore some brown things are cows."
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| [14th century. Directly or via French< late Latin immediatus "not separated" < Latin mediatus, past participle of mediare (see mediate)] |
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| im·me·di·a·cy noun |
| im·me·di·ate·ness noun |
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