Velocity

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  • noun. Rapidity or speed of motion; swiftness.
  • noun. A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The rate of speed of action or occurrence.
  • noun. The rate at which money changes hands in an economy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Quickness of motion; speed in movement; swiftness; rapidity; celerity: used only (or chiefly) of inanimate objects. See def. 2.
  • noun. .2. In physics, rate of motion; the rate at which a body changes its position in space; the rate of change of position of a point per unit of time.
  • noun. In music, decided rapidity of tempo or pace, particularly in a bravura passage.
  • noun. The velocity at which the mode of flow of a liquid, in a pipe or channel, is modified by the setting up of eddy-motion and the consequent interruption of the stream lines.
  • noun. Same as critical velocity .
  • noun. The velocity of a given individual wave-length of light as opposed to the group velocity of a complex beam taken as a whole.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity
  • noun. Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed.
  • noun. See under Angular.
  • noun. the velocity of a moving body at starting; especially, the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the mouth of a firearm from which it is discharged.
  • noun. the velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are moving or only one.
  • noun. velocity in which the same number of units of space are described in each successive unit of time.
  • noun. velocity in which the space described varies from instant to instant, either increasing or decreasing; -- in the former case called accelerated velocity, in the latter, retarded velocity; the acceleration or retardation itself being also either uniform or variable.
  • noun. See under Virtual.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.
  • noun. Rapidity of motion.
  • noun. The rate of occurrence.
  • noun. The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. distance travelled per unit time
  • Word Usage
    "In 1899 Lenard demonstrated the cause to be the emission of electrons at a certain velocity from the negatively charged body."
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    rate  
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    activity  actuation  alacrity  amble  bat  
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