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point-instants

point-instants is the plural of point-instant.

Meaning of point-instant

Noun

point-instant (plural point-instants)

  1. 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

Questions about point-instants

What is point-instants the plural of?
Point-instants is the plural of point-instant.

Words near point-instants in the dictionary

  1. point-devise
  2. point-free
  3. point-in-line
  4. point-in-lines
  5. point-instant
  6. point-instants
  7. point-of-view
  8. point-of-viewless
  9. point-of-viewlessness
  10. point-of-viewness
  11. point-projection perspective

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