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词汇 celerity
释义 celerity
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /səˈler.ə.ti/ us /səˈler.ə.t̬i/
speed速度
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Speed of motion
at full/half throttleidiom
briskness
burst of speed
clip
clock
cruising speed
ground speed
hypersonic
hypervelocity
instantaneous velocity
light speed
linear velocity
momentum
pace
speed of sound
speediness
supersonically
swiftness
throttle
velocity
Examples from literature

Ethan expected to hear the shambling step going away with a celerity proportionate to the importance of the errand. 
Having collected all their forces, with loud whooping and encouraging shouts to one another, they led towards us with great celerity. 
He poured his own drink and shoved the bottles toward his friend, who helped himself with skilful celerity. 
The dog vanished with astonishing celerity, and each guest turned his dish bottom upward to show that all was gone. 
There were two private nurses to wait on me, and they moved with the celerity of antelopes in response to my slightest bidding. 

Examples of celerity


celerity
The remaining celerity will be related to the motion of waves in the bed surface.
Once the public took the first step, then the courts could and did move with celerity and relative ease.
Comparisons of measured or calculated bed-wave and surface-wave celerities have not previously been presented to confirm the occurrence of the resonance instability mechanism.
The celerity of such disturbances is small, but the effect on the interface can be large.
The fact that the primary flow velocity is zero at the interface may explain some aspects of the disturbance celerity.
The celerity is also small for the case of small wave-numbers.
As well aa results for the wave celerity and shape, expressions and graphs for the water particle velocity and local acceleration fields are given.
For any given wavelength-flow system combination, two of the celerities evaluated from this equation will apply to the movement of water-surface waves.
Physically, this may correspond to an infinite heat propagation celerity.
It is seen from (47) and figure 5 that the surface tension could make the celerity negative, hence disturbances would travel uphill.
Surface tension is found to influence both the direction and celerity of the disturbance.
I hope that it will go on its way with this comparatively unreal celerity and that it may quickly pass into law.
From the
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With the present world shortage of food, surely it is essential that this question of a port should be decided with the utmost celerity.
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I do not suggest that the consideration and issue of patents is a process noted for its celerity anywhere.
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Hansard archive

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We should address our own problems with as much celerity as we address the problems of others.
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