Velocity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Rapidity or speed of motion; swiftness.
  • n. Physics A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion.
  • n. The rate of speed of action or occurrence.
  • n. The rate at which money changes hands in an economy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.
  • n. Rapidity of motion.
  • n. The rate of occurrence.
  • n. The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. Same as critical velocity .
  • n. The velocity of a given individual wave-length of light as opposed to the group velocity of a complex beam taken as a whole.
  • n. Quickness of motion; speed in movement; swiftness; rapidity; celerity: used only (or chiefly) of inanimate objects. See def. 2.
  • n. .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.
  • n. In music, decided rapidity of tempo or pace, particularly in a bravura passage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. distance travelled per unit time
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rate   
    Variant
    speed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fleetness    celerity    speed    swiftness    rapidity   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    speed    density    temperature    frequency    acceleration    momentum    altitude    intensity    rapidity    flow