velocity

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Now, as the velocity is assumed to be the same in both cases, the ratio between the distance (already so tremendous) of Bessel's 61 Cygni_, and that of Lord Rosse's farthest frontier, is as forty- one thousand to two hundred and fifty millions.

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  1. noun Rapidity or speed of motion; swiftness.
  2. noun Physics A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion.
  3. noun The rate of speed of action or occurrence.
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  • Sonic Crack – If a bullet has a muzzle velocity which is higher than the speed of sound (approx 1,000fps) it will produce a sonic boom as it travels through the air. —  12 - Silencers
  • Light-velocity is a mathematical standard or constant not because there is an absolute value in 186,000 miles a second, but because no material body, whose mass increases with its velocity, can ever attain the velocity of light. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Bob Melvin talks about both starting pitchers as well as Jon Rauch - he points out the velocity was a bit better from Rauch, hitting 92 mph on the gun, better than it has been, but the end result is what matters. —  AZ Snakepit
  • * The Taepodong-2 never reached orbital velocity, which is 7.9 km / sec. —  War Is Boring
  • Hamels, who said his velocity is always down this early in the season, said location was his biggest problem, along with Colorado's thin air, which robbed him of his curveball and forced him to throw a steady diet of changeups, which he hung, and fastballs, which "were right down the middle." —  Times Leader News
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  1. Middle English velocite, from Old French, from Latin vēlōcitās, from vēlōx, vēlōc-, fast; see weg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French velocite, French vélocité = Spanish velocidad = Portuguese vclocidade = Italian velocità, from Latin velocita (t-)s, swiftness, speed, from velox (veloc-), swift, akin to volare, fly: see volant.
 

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