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célérité — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • celerity noun Speed, swiftness.
  • rapidity noun speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid

Senses

célérité is used for these senses in English:

  • rapidity speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid

celerity — full definition

  1. noun Speed, swiftness.
  2. noun The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
  3. noun The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.
  4. noun The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.

rapidity — full definition

  1. noun speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
  2. 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).
  3. noun A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis

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