[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

immediate \imme"diate\, a. f. imm'ediat. see in- not, and
   mediate.
   1. not separated in respect to place by anything intervening;
      proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
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            you are the most immediate to our throne. --shak.
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   2. not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
      "assemble we immediate council." --shak.
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            death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,
            by some immediate stroke.             --milton.
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   3. acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the
      intervention of another object as a cause, means, or
      agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an
      immediate cause.
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            the immediate knowledge of the past is therefore
            impossible.                           --sir. w.
                                                  hamilton.
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   immediate amputation surg., an amputation performed
      within the first few hours after an injury, and before the
      the effects of the shock have passed away.

   syn: proximate; close; direct; next.
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see also:
in- mediate immediate amputation 

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