point-instant

English

Noun

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.