Crossword clues for velocities
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].]
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Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
Note: In such phrases, velocity is more generally used than celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity; but bodies moving in the air or in ethereal space move with greater or less velocity, not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and perhaps not universal.
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(Mech.) 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.
Angular velocity. See under Angular.
Initial velocity, 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.
Relative velocity, the velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are moving or only one.
Uniform velocity, velocity in which the same number of units of space are described in each successive unit of time.
Variable velocity, velocity in which the space described varies from 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.
Virtual velocity. See under Virtual.
Note: In variable velocity, the velocity, strictly, at any given instant, is the rate of motion at that instant, and is expressed by the units of space, which, if the velocity at that instant were continued uniform during a unit of time, would be described in the unit of time; thus, the velocity of a falling body at a given instant is the number of feet which, if the motion which the body has at that instant were continued uniformly for one second, it would pass through in the second. The scientific sense of velocity differs from the popular sense in being applied to all rates of motion, however slow, while the latter implies more or less rapidity or quickness of motion.
Syn: Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; fleetness; speed.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of velocity English)
Usage examples of "velocities".
Harpies and hyperspace starships spun and swooped around each other at hazardous velocities, their flights dangerously unstable as the massive distortion effects buffeted them as a tempest treated leaves.
All it took was the slightest graze, at those closing velocities both projectile and target alike detonated into billowing plumes of plasma.
Other stars, of course, have different orbital velocities, depending on their distance from the core, so their velocities relative to each other are also different.
The two very different starships matched velocities, and headed towards the squadron.
Starship and star were still moving at very different velocities as they orbited the galactic core.
The three Pax torchships drop from relativistic velocities under more than six hundred gravities of deceleration-what spacefarers for centuries have called "raspberry jam delta-v"- meaning, of course, that if the internal containment fields were to fail for a microsecond, the crews would be little more than a layer of raspberry jam on the deckplates.
At that distance even energy beams would seem to crawl toward their targets like lightning bugs on a black bedsheet, but the Pax ships carry hypervelocity and hyperkinetic weapons: essentially small Hawking-drive starships in their own right, some carrying plasma warheads, which are spun up to relativistic velocities in microseconds to detonate within the forest, others designed simply to drop back into real space, their mass enlarged, and to plow through the trees like cannonballs fired through wet cardboard at point-blank range.
Yes, velocities will be high, as will be our combined delta-v's if their ship commences deceleration toward Parvati, but relative velocities for the two ships will be almost nill.
The latter changes allow me to reach C-plus translation velocities much more quickly than standard spinships .
As it is, we'll just be able to match velocities for five or six minutes.
As the ship spun down from Hawking velocities, we asked that the hull be made transparent.
Normally we never would have exited from C-plus this close to a planet and moons-their gravity wells made spindown velocities very dangerous-but the ship had assured us that its augmented fields would handle any problems.
Raphael should be able to get in and translate back to quantum velocities if there is a threat to her capture.
Raphael's drive is largely a hoax: when it reaches near-quantum velocities, it keys a signal on a medium once referred to as the Void Which Binds.
The electric fields produced by that kind of release could accelerate electrons to enormous velocities, approaching that of light.