GDict

rapidity

rә'piditi8 senses · 392 ms
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noun/ɹəˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/
  1. 1

    speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapidcountableuncountable

    • Although appreciating the rapidity and frequency of the Southern electric services I was now to use on short journeys, I became more than ever convinced that electric traction offers very little of interest to the dyed-in-the-wool railwayis
    • In clinical practice, the generation of diagnostic hypotheses occurs especially readily and rapidly in subdisciplines such as dermatology, where gross appearance of lesions is of particular importance diagnostically[…]. The primacy of macro
  2. 2

    A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).countableuncountable

  3. 3

    A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axiscountableuncountable

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