EGAVE

rapidity

About 2.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
  2. noun 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).
  3. noun A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis

Similar words

celerity quickness speediness rapid swiftness haste speedy speed expeditious expeditiousness

Often followed by

of with and that in to as which than

Word family

rapidities

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