Peacemaking in the Middle East is a process, not an instantaneous event.
As a result, it could be used to record nearly instantaneous events as well as sequential moments.
The Greek term used for "perfect" is teleios (Strong's No. 5046), signifying a process of growth until completion, and not an instantaneous event.
Even though lightning strikes are, for the most part, instantaneous events, evidence of lightning activity from past climate can be found in unique minerals called fulgurite.
But it "was not an instantaneous event," Dr. Grice said.
According to decoherence theory, the collapse of the wave function is not a discrete, instantaneous event.
Single-threaded simulation engines based on instantaneous events have just one current event.
Continental collision is not an instantaneous event, but may take several tens of millions of years before the faulting and folding caused by collision stop.
In the meantime, he continued to innovate in the field of photography by inventing a stop action shutter which allowed him to take photographs of instantaneous events.
Where geologically instantaneous events such as earthquakes are concerned, they are rigid enough to transmit the shock waves, like any solid.