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velocity

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Velocity \Ve*loc"i*ty\, n.; pl. Velocities . [L. velocitas, from velox, -ocis, swift, quick; perhaps akin to v?lare to fly (see Volatile ): cf. F. v['e]locit['e].] Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Velocity , (real name Carin Taylor ) is an Image Comics / Top Cow Productions character from the comic series Cyberforce , created by Marc Silvestri in 1992 . She is one of, if not the main character in the Cyberforce series, and often serves as the reader’s ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES escape velocity COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE angular ▪ When considering circular motion it is often easier to work in terms of the angular velocity rather than ordinary linear velocity. ▪ The Lift's wide, so ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin velocitatem (nominative velocitas ) "swiftness, speed," from velox (genitive velocis ) "swift, speedy, rapid, quick," of uncertain origin, perhaps related to vehere "carry" (see vehicle ), or from the same root as vigil .

Usage examples of velocity.

It would accelerate to relativistic velocities between Magaria and Zanshaa, then broadcast its coded contents to the capital.

Naxid missiles, Martinez realized, accelerated to relativistic velocities outside the system, then fired through the wormhole along the route they knew Chenforce had to take.

She was trapped without a ship or a radio aboard an asteroid that was accelerating smoothly to absurdly high velocities by means she could not understand.

The propeller ceased to revolve, and the aeroplane began to plunge downward with fearful velocity.

An automatic rheostat must have been mounted to the speaker, for the volume rose steadily, until the noise of the storm wind filled the office, a blast of rushing airlike the sounds of an experimental wind tunnel at maximum velocity.

The three cactacae are appalled at this velocity and control that border on thaumaturgy.

All that I can remember is, that on every ascensional motion, we were hoisted up with ever increasing velocity, as if we had been launched from a huge projectile.

The boojum registered the number, velocity, mass, and origin of the small ships, as well as noting the tell-tale hydrogen torches propelling them.

Despite all the evidence that I presented to the contrary, Chubby could never quite shake, off the belief that the velocity and range of a bullet depended upon how hard one pulled the trigger - and Chubby intended that his bullets go very fast and very far indeed.

The screen was apparently in itself a coign of vantage, flying through space with the velocity of light, and the watchers gasped involuntarily and drew themselves together as with that unthinkable speed they flashed down toward the surface of Callisto.

H-bomb crane technique velocity impossibly equals speed minus girth on this turf, earthless spinner.

I puzzled out at last that my best chance would be to drop back towards the moon as near as I dared in order to gather velocity, then to shut my windows, and fly behind it, and when I was past to open my earthward windows, and so get off at a good pace homeward.

I shut all but an inch or so of earthward window, and dropped with a slackening velocity.

I dared in order to gather velocity, then to shut my windows, and fly behind it, and when I was past to open my earthward windows, and so get off at a good pace homeward.

Every loose article in every heptagon had long since been stored in its individual shock-proof compartment, and now every Vorkul coiled his entire body in fierce clasp about mighty horizontal bars: for the entire kinetic energy of the untold millions of tons of mass comprising the cone, at the terrific measure of its highest possible velocity, was to be hurled upon those unbreakable linkages of force which bound the trussed aggregation of Vorkulian fortresses to the deeply-buried intrenchments of the hexans.