speed

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 light
speed of sound
speediness
supersonically
swiftness
throttle

velocity | American Dictionary

velocity
noun[ C ]
us/vəˈlɑs·ɪ·t̬i/
physics
the speed at which something is traveling:
The wind velocity recorded at the airport was 78 miles per hour at 4 p.m.

velocity | Business English

velocity
noun[ U ]
uk /vɪˈlɒsəti/us
the speed at which something happens or moves:
If national companies cannot produce at the same velocity that people demand goods, they need to import them from outside.
Online payments have improved the velocity of trade.

Examples of velocity

velocity
The hunter selects a velocity uniformly at random between 0 and 1 and proceeds in a clockwise direction according to this velocity.
The remaining generalised velocities must be formulated as functions of the previous ones.
The unknowns (both velocities and stresses) are assumed to vary linearly over each element.
It is commonly supposed that any explicit numerical method with fixed time-step is destabilized by a sufficiently large velocity of any particular atom.
Then the water composition approximately oscillates at each point of the aquifer in phase with the water velocity.
Mean shear increases the separation between particle pairs (see figure 4), thereby helping t o decorrelate their random velocities.
Respiratory excursions substantially modify the velocity profile and should be avoided during standard recording.
The stereoscopic relations which convert the images of the bead trajectories to the three-dimensional velocity field are given in the appendix.
We further presume that the required characteristics of the mean flow (mean velocity) and turbulence (intensity, scale size, etc.) may be specified.
The evolution of the turbulent velocity field in these air data is far more coherent than were such measurements in water.
The constraint a2+p2= 1 ensures that the variance of the turbulent velocity is correct.
Unlike the point source cases, there was no indication of singularities in the velocity field.
There was also a reduction in the vertical phase velocity of the instabilities.
The vertical velocity in the right vortex is spatially distributed as in the left vortex.
The vertical structure of both the wind velocity and pressure fields shows interesting variation along the wave profile.
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Collocations withvelocity

velocity

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average velocity
In addition to their orbital motions, particles may also have an averagevelocity.
conduction velocity
The average linear conduction velocity of delayed calcium responses was 10.7 + 0.82 m sec-1 (n=75).
constant velocity
This region is moving downstream with a constantvelocity.
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