rapidity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ɹəˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/
Etymology
From rapid + -ity, from French rapidité, from Latin rapiditas.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
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.
1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340: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 macroscopy in paleopathology means that the activation of skeletal disease scripts occurs with similar facility and rapidity when skeletal remains are examined.
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
- (countable, qualifier:relativity, uncountable) 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).
- (countable, uncountable) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rapidities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (19)
ro rapiditate (speed, swiftness) · sv fart (speed, swiftness) · tl tulin (speed, swiftness) · sv snärt (speed, swiftness) · fr célérité (speed, swiftness) · eo rapideco (speed, swiftness) · ru быстрота́ (speed, swiftness) · bg бързина (speed, swiftness) · vo vif (speed, swiftness) · fr rapidité (speed, swiftness) · it rapidità (speed, swiftness) · el ταχύτητα (speed, swiftness) · es celeridad (speed, swiftness) · io rapideso (speed, swiftness) · tl bilis (speed, swiftness) · ru ско́рость (speed, swiftness) · es rapidez (speed, swiftness) · pl szybkość (speed, swiftness) · sv snabbhet (speed, swiftness)