point-instant

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point-instant (plural point-instants)

  1. (physics, philosophy) The smallest unit of space-time; a particular point along the continua of space and time.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 57:
      But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe.
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