Especially if it's a WIKI sort of thing. I've found wikipedia to be wrong more often than right, with the queries I've made, and, when corrected, they provide something on the order of, "Circle: a figure that some believe to be the locus of points equidistant from a single point called the center, but sometimes considered to be an ellipse, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezoid, octagon, or other multi-sided and often irregular figure."

We all know that's wrong, but they have to be politically correct ... after all, a circle has only two sides ... inside and outside.

I had to yell at 'em (the wiki guys) before they'd fix their definition of Manchester encoding, to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_code, which merely muddies the water rather than clarifying it.

That took several years, and now, you find many more wrong definitions on the www than correct ones, simply because they mimic the old wiki definition.

I've been carefully reading English technical literature for over 50 years, and have no recollection of ever encountering the word "momentaneous" with the possible exception of poorly translated material. I have frequently encountered the term "instantaneous" however, and I believe that's what you're trying to express.

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