Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"

having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence"

The second-highest precedence for CIA cable communications.

Changes the word just compiled to be immediate. The programmer, by making a definition IMMEDIATE, sets the word to be executed, rather than compiled, when found within a colon definition. This is useful for extending the compiler. : PRINT-HERE ( -- , prints current DP, even while compiling ) HERE . ; IMMEDIATE : FOO 23 DUP PRINT-HERE + ; ( will print HERE now ) To cause an IMMEDIATE word to be compiled, it should be preceded with [COMPILE] . : FANCY-PRINT-HERE ( -- , fancier version ) ." Here = " [COMPILE] PRINT-HERE ;

Given the name-field-address of a dictionary header, return whether it is compiled as an IMMEDIATE definition. ' LITERAL NAME IMMEDIATE? ( -- true ) . 64 ok ' DROP NAME IMMEDIATE? ( -- false ) . 0 ok

performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"

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.

immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"

A patient who requires rapid assessment and medical intervention for survival.

Generally refers to a riposte made immediately after the parry.

incomparable informative interpret involved

An immediate is a numeric instruction operand.

of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions"

Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

The immediate thing to remember is that this word has a prefix, in- "not" which becomes [m] before [m] (or [b] or [p]). "Not mediate" means direct which is why "immediately" means "directly."

An immediate value is one that is given in the program code, instead of being loaded from somewhere else. For example, in LD A, 17, 17 is an immediate value. In LD A, B, the value in B is not immediate, because is is not written into the code.

Funds available immediate (as opposed to forward).