rapidity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rapid + -ity, from French rapidité, from Latin rapiditas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rapidity (countable and uncountable, plural rapidities)
- speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
- 1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
- 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 railwayist.
- (physics) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light
- (physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]speed, swiftness
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