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Definition of Rapidity |
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Rapidity
The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement. Related Definitions: As, Being, Celerity, Current, Growth, Improvement, Of, Or, Quality, Rapid, Rapidity, Speech, State, Swiftness, The, Velocity |
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Rapidity Quotations
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. Henry Lawson Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced. Hermann von Helmholtz The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. George H. Lewes From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. Henry Charles Carey They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. Joyce Grenfell |
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Rapidity Translations
rapidity in German is Schnelligkeit rapidity in Latin is celeritas rapidity in Spanish is rapidez, prontitud |
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