Immediate
Immediate , adjective
[French immédiat. See In- not, and Mediate.]
1.
Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
You are the most immediate to our throne.
2.
Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
Assemble we immediate council.
Death... not yet inflicted, as he feared,
By some immediate stroke.
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.
The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible.
Collocations (1)
Immediate amputation (Surgery) , an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.