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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Swiftness of action or motion; speed. See Synonyms at haste.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Rapidity of motion; swiftness; quickness; speed.
  2. n. Velocity, Swiftness, etc. See quickness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. in literary usage Speed.
  2. n. oceanography The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rate that is rapid

Etymologies

  1. French célérité > Latin celeritas > Latin celer, fast, swift. (Wiktionary)
  2. French célérité, from Old French, from Latin celeritās, from celer, swift. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb Famous celery. Jan 24, 2008

  • sionnach 'A rate that is rapid'.

    A definition so crap it
    reminds us that Weirdnet is
    terminally vapid. Jan 23, 2008

  • seanahan This is a good word, we need to start using it more often. Oct 22, 2007

  • chained_bear Thus with imagined wings our swift scene flies
    In motion with no less celerity
    Than that of thought...
    --Chorus, Henry V, by W. Shakespeare Oct 22, 2007

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