rapidity

For most, this rapidity is a problem, or an excuse.

Statement of Purpose

But this rapidity is not important for the final distribution.

Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture

I am glad to think that Canada has recovered with so much rapidity from the effects of war.

Some After-War Problems—Unemployment, Immigration, Reparations

Here, however, the sale is increased in rapidity more than a third.

Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney

Flying with rapidity from the hills of Media to the marshes of the

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour.

Poems and Fragments

The frequency of the waves, the rapidity, that is, with which wave follows wave, depends on the size and proximity of the plates and on the length and form of the coil which connects them.

The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force

+ While the Byzantine Empire was at its zenith, the new faith of Islam was conquering Western Asia and the Mediterranean lands with a fiery rapidity, which is one of the marvels of history.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised

This temper of mind would, in all things, have made him act with that rapidity, which is rashness with the weak, and decision with the strong.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade

Speed in photography is described as the rapidity with which a sensitized surface is acted on by light, usually expressed by a number.

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