rapid
The disease spread with alarming rapidity.
the rapidity of economic growth in many of the developing countries
People came and went with increasing rapidity.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Speed of motion
at full/half throttleidiom
briskness
burst of speed
celerity
clip
clock
ground speed
haste
hypersonic
hypervelocity
instantaneous velocity
light speed
momentum
pace
speed of sound
speediness
supersonically
swiftness
throttle
velocity

Examples of rapidity

rapidity
For chaotic systems, even states that are infinitesimally different in their initial specifications will, with some degree of rapidity, diverge in their future evolutions.
Its unwritten character gives it the sense of tradition although some such obligations have been recognised as emerging with great rapidity.
The rapidity with which social demarcations get consolidated aboard ship reveals the profound impact of class performatives on the life of the nation.
The rapidity with which drug selection appears indicates that the resistant alleles are pre-existing in the wild populations.
However, it does illustrate the rapidity of historical change in this field3and may help us to understand today's retirees.
But the vastness of scale, the immensity and rapidity, and the universal consequences for all citizens (of germ warfare or nuclear destruction) are new.
Another striking feature of the model is the rapidity with which photoreceptors die.
The symptoms are related to the magnitude and rapidity of the decline in serum sodium.
The rapidity of change has left scant opportunity for investigation of the consequences of adoption of transgenic crops on long-term ecosystem or economic system functioning.
The possibilities that specific genetic factors, intrinsic gene expression levels and\\or the rapidity of the life cycle modulate epigenetic gene controls are discussed.
The degree of disorder, it is proposed, is a function of rapidity of ovarian decline, susceptibility of the autonomic nervous system and pre-existing emotional instability.
His observations on the rapidity of flashes could also be adapted to portraiture.
Seed-bank selection studies, such as the rapidity with which seed-bank persistence can occur, might be easy to design.
Both of these factors determine rapidity and depth of burial.
Finally, time signature refers both to the rapidity of the transfer and, more generally, to the time dimension associated with different forms of capital.
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