There are two concepts which I want to distinguish, and one I call simultaneity and the other instantaneousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Under these conditions, "simultaneity" is an empty noise. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
SHEPPERD: Basically a difference between this war and the Gulf War is the word "simultaneity," if you will. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2003] Reference
A duration is a concrete slab of nature limited by simultaneity which is an essential factor disclosed in sense-awareness. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Are time, space, and simultaneity really relative?. From Wordnik.com. [Our founding fathers constructed our constitution to keep religious fanatics like Sarah Palin OUT of government!] Reference
O'BRIEN: What is dangerous about simultaneity, then?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
Page 83, Volume 4 simultaneity is relative, so too is length. From Wordnik.com. [RELATIVITY] Reference
In this ethos, market simultaneity, not wisdom, is a central goal. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite : Wall Street Culture - They Still Don't Get It (Except Their Bonuses)] Reference
O'BRIEN: Ms. Hwang, simultaneity, that can be a tricky game, can't it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
Now, you have simultaneity, you have everything happening in real time. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schirrmacher: The Age of the Informavore] Reference
And, as far as the laws of simultaneity would allow, it was midnight in. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
This was one of the risks of attempting to use the tactic of simultaneity. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses Rally Marking FEU Attack] Reference
They use buzzwords like simultaneity, agility and effects-based targeting. From Wordnik.com. [Boots, Bytes And Bombs] Reference
You know, there's no mechanical explanation for the simultaneity in the body. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006] Reference
WIT: Well, I hate to correct you, but, in fact, simultaneity can work very well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
Army's 525-5 Pamphlet reflect and exploit operational rapidity and simultaneity. From Wordnik.com. [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference
Peeping from behind a curtain, I note the simultaneity of their movements with delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
We build on the trends of rapidity and simultaneity and seek to emphasize control and time. From Wordnik.com. [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference
They paid attention with only a portion of themselves, yet understood with lucid simultaneity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
That conclusion was clearly dawning on the other Robert in pretty much watches-synced simultaneity. From Wordnik.com. [The several stages of grief] Reference
Mark thought of all this with vague simultaneity at the moment the thought "Ilium" occurred to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian Way]
But I think what is going on here is a gradual shift toward simultaneity in steps taken on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
Given the history of al Qaeda, the simultaneity of these attacks, it seems to have that characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005] Reference
In 1898 Poincaré had already questioned the concept of simultaneity at different locations, and in 1900 he. From Wordnik.com. [RELATIVITY] Reference
Someday we'll reach true simultaneity -- enter warp, and come out just where we want to be, at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
And the simultaneity of inflation/unemployment could not be met by conventional methods of Keynesian Economics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004] Reference
But, not to parse on words, perhaps simultaneity may or may not be the best word, but it is really reciprocity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003] Reference
The characteristics of value in attacking these important targets systems are simultaneity, impunity, and timing. From Wordnik.com. [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference
I think they're looking at simultaneity, which they're not just going to come in from one axis, from one country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2002] Reference
And so, we'll undertake the sequencing and simultaneity (ph) of our operations on a time line that makes sense to us. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003] Reference
And the simultaneity of these attacks -- the organized way in which they were run -- Zarqawi, of course, a Jordanian himself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005] Reference
GROSS: I just wonder what you make of the simultaneity or near simultaneity of that, and what it has to say about your lives. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina'] Reference
And our country was mired in what the Keynesian economists said could never happen: the simultaneity of inflation and high unemployment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Jack Kemp and Robert Rubin Discuss the American Economy in the 21st Century - January 2, 2000] Reference
Say instead (insofar as simultaneity has any meaning across interstellar distances) that the death agony had occurred some months before. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
He embraced the idea of “a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process.”. From Wordnik.com. [With His Pants Down: A Writer's Self-Portrait] Reference
The web forum has more of the feel of a conversation, with its simultaneity, spontaneity, frequent disruptions, and lots and lots of noise. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
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