rapidity

rapidity
Synonyms and related words:
air speed, alacrity, bat, briskness, ceaselessness, celerity, chattering, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, decisiveness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, gait, ground speed, haste, hurry, immediacy, immediateness, incessancy, instantaneousness, knots, lightning speed, miles per hour, noninterruption, oscillation, pace, perpetuity, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, pulsation, punctuality, punctualness, quick fire, quickness, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, readiness, regularity, repetition, round pace, rpm, rush, snappiness, speed, speediness, staccato, steadiness, stuttering, summariness, sustainment, swift rate, swiftness, tattoo, unintermission, uninterruption, velocity, vibration

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  • Rapidity — Ra*pid i*ty (r[.a]*p[i^]d [i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. rapiditas: cf. F. rapidit[ e].] The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rapidity — index dispatch (promptness), haste Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • rapidity — (n.) 1650s, from L. rapiditatem, from rapidus (see RAPID (Cf. rapid)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • rapidity — [n] quickness acceleration, alacrity, bat, briskness, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, hurry, pace, precipitateness, promptitude, promptness, rapidness, rush, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity; concepts 755,805 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

  • rapidity — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ alarming, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, great, remarkable ▪ The styles change with bewildering rapidity. ▪ increasing …   Collocations dictionary

  • rapidity — n. (with) lightning rapidity * * * [rə pɪdɪtɪ] (with) lightning rapidity …   Combinatory dictionary

  • rapidity — rapid ► ADJECTIVE ▪ happening in a short time or at great speed. ► NOUN (usu. rapids) ▪ a fast flowing and turbulent part of the course of a river. DERIVATIVES rapidity noun rapidly adverb. ORIGIN Latin rapidus, from rapere take by force …   English terms dictionary

  • rapidity — noun Date: 1654 the quality or state of being rapid …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Rapidity — Die Rapidität ist ein alternatives Maß für Geschwindigkeit, das gelegentlich in der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie verwendet wird. Erstmals formuliert wurde der Begriff von Alfred Robb (1911). Die Rapidität θ ist als θ = tanh − 1(v / c) definiert …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • rapidity — /reuh pid i tee/, n. a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity. Also, rapidness /rap id nis/. [1610 20; < L rapiditas. See RAPID, ITY] Syn. swiftness, fleetness. See speed. * * * …   Universalium

  • rapidity — noun a) speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid b) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light …   Wiktionary

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