szybkość — meaning in English

English meaning

• alacrity noun Eager and enthusiastic willingness to do something.
• rapidity noun The quality of being fast; speed.
• rate noun A measure of how fast something happens, or how one quantity compares to another.
• speed noun How fast something moves, or the rate at which something happens.

Senses

szybkość is used for these senses in English:

• alacrity Promptness; speed.
• rapidity speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
• rate The relative speed of change or progress. [from 18th c.]
• speed The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
• speed (mathematics, physics) The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.

alacrity — full definition

1. noun Eager and enthusiastic willingness to do something.
2. noun Speed and quickness in doing something.

rapidity — full definition

1. noun The quality of being fast; speed.
2. noun (physics) A measure of how fast something is moving compared with the speed of light, calculated using the hyperbolic arctangent of its speed as a fraction of light speed.
3. noun (physics) A measure of how fast a particle in a beam is moving along the beam's own direction.

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