rapid
a rapidly growing industrial city
When women reach menopause, they begin to lose bone more rapidly.
The wind power industry is expanding rapidly.

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rapidly
From the 1930s to the 1950s the incidence of walking to work declined rapidly, but the use of buses and bicycles increased substantially.
The embodied and ideologically embedded nature of cultural capital means that it cannot be transferred rapidly.
They decay rapidly in the vertical, which indicates that they are surface-confined.
It is effectively a prodrug that is rapidly and completely metabolized and virtually all of its activity is due to its metabolites.
Two stimulus variants were explored: temporally sparse and rapidly contrast reversing.
If so, focal paroxysmal activity would spread rapidly and simultaneously in the cortex and thalamus using synaptic pathways.
Rapidly decreasing separation between adjacent bifurcation points did not allow the identification of higher periodicities.
After the second peak, thus, the fast electron beam intensity is rapidly decreased.
This is because the boundary layer grows rapidly and the variable-viscosity effect delays this process.
This protein was heatsoluble, disappeared rapidly during germination and was absent from immature embryos and leaves (data not shown).
This once plentiful source of old lotus fruits is rapidly disappearing.
But, as soon as the war ended, social unrest spread rapidly because of fierce inflation and other factors.
Production of wool increased somewhat more rapidly, but of late there are signs of a fall in yield.
At any rate, the possibilities for the rural population to combine small-scale farming with non-agricultural activities rapidly evaporated.
Evidence that vesicles on the synaptic ribbon of retinal bipolar neurons can be rapidly released.
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