Immediate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

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

III. Immediate ·adj 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.