célérité — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
célérité is used for these senses in English:
- rapidity speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
celerity — full definition
- noun Speed, swiftness.
- noun The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
- noun The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.
- noun The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.
rapidity — full definition
- noun speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
- noun A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).
- noun A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis