The laboratory's immediate response to the equipment malfunction prevented a costly interruption in the research.
实验室对设备故障的立即响应防止了研究工作中代价高昂的中断。
The historian's account proceeds strictly year by year from 1914 to 1918, pausing at each year only to note major battles and their immediate political consequences.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A survey of remote employees found that those who took a short walk immediately before joining video meetings reported significantly less self-rated fatigue afterward than those who did not, even after accounting for total daily meeting hours and sleep duration.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
A longitudinal study tracking over twenty-five hundred adults found that maintaining strong friendships outside one's immediate family predicted greater reported happiness in old age more strongly than the size of one's retirement savings did.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “immediate”?
C — Happening or done without delay. “immediate” means happening or done without delay.
Which word means “happening or done without delay”?
C — immediate. “immediate” means happening or done without delay.
immediate — happening or done without delay. In Chinese: 立即的.
immediate is pronounced /ɪˈmiːdiət/.
The laboratory's immediate response to the equipment malfunction prevented a costly interruption in the research. (实验室对设备故障的立即响应防止了研究工作中代价高昂的中断。)
instant, prompt, swift — all close in meaning to immediate (happening or done without delay).
delayed, gradual — each the opposite of immediate (happening or done without delay).
Yes. immediate is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.