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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue

Meaning of "rapidity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RAPIDITY

rapidity  [rəˈpɪdɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAPIDITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rapidity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RAPIDITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rapidity

In relativity, rapidity is an alternative to speed as a measure of motion. On parallel velocities rapidities are simply additive, unlike speeds at relativistic velocities. For low speeds, rapidity and speed are proportional, but for high speeds, rapidity takes a larger value. The rapidity of light is infinite. Using the inverse hyperbolic function tanh−1, the rapidity φ corresponding to velocity v is φ = tanh−1. For low speeds, φ is approximately v / c. The speed of light c being finite, any velocity v is constrained to the interval −c < v < c and the ratio v/c satisfies −1 < v / c < 1. Since the inverse hyperbolic tangent has the unit interval for its domain and the whole real line for its range, the interval −c < v < c becomes mapped onto −∞ < φ < ∞. Mathematically, rapidity can be defined as the hyperbolic angle that differentiates two frames of reference in relative motion, each frame being associated with distance and time coordinates.

Definition of rapidity in the English dictionary

The definition of rapidity in the dictionary is speed; swiftness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAPIDITY


acidity
əˈsɪdɪtɪ
aridity
əˈrɪdɪtɪ
comorbidity
ˌkəʊmɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
cupidity
kjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
fluidity
fluːˈɪdɪtɪ
hispidity
hɪsˈpɪdɪtɪ
humidity
hjuːˈmɪdɪtɪ
insipidity
ˌɪnsɪˈpɪdɪtɪ
intrepidity
ˌɪntrɪˈpɪdɪtɪ
invalidity
ˌɪnvəˈlɪdɪtɪ
limpidity
lɪmˈpɪdɪtɪ
liquidity
lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ
morbidity
mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
rigidity
rɪˈdʒɪdɪtɪ
sapidity
səˈpɪdɪtɪ
stupidity
stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
tepidity
tɛˈpɪdɪtɪ
torpidity
tɔːˈpɪdɪtɪ
turbidity
tɜːˈbɪdɪtɪ
vapidity
væˈpɪdɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAPIDITY

rapid
rapid deployment force
rapid dominance
rapid eye movement
rapid eye movement sleep
rapid fire
rapid reaction force
rapid transit
rapid transit chess
rapid transit system
rapid-fire
rapidly
rapidness
rapids
rapier
rapier wit
rapier-like
rapiered
rapine
rapini

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAPIDITY

absolute humidity
avidity
face validity
flaccidity
frigidity
gravidity
hyperacidity
lividity
lucidity
modulus of rigidity
nudity
placidity
putridity
rancidity
relative humidity
solidity
superfluidity
timidity
torridity
validity
viscidity

Synonyms and antonyms of rapidity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAPIDITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rapidity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rapidity

Translation of «rapidity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAPIDITY

Find out the translation of rapidity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rapidity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rapidity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迅速
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rapidez
570 millions of speakers

English

rapidity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तेज़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سرعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

быстрота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rapidez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষিপ্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rapidité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelajuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schnelligkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

速度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인텔리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cepet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nhanh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तीव्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

serilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rapidità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szybkość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прудкість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rapiditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταχύτητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spoed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snabbhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hurtighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rapidity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAPIDITY»

The term «rapidity» is regularly used and occupies the 59.518 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAPIDITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rapidity

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9 QUOTES WITH «RAPIDITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rapidity.
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Charles Babbage
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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Henry Charles Carey
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
3
Joyce Grenfell
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
4
Hermann von Helmholtz
Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.
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Archibald Hill
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
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Archibald Hill
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
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Henry Lawson
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
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Warren De la Rue
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
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Jules Verne
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAPIDITY»

Discover the use of rapidity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rapidity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mid-rapidity Neutral Pion Production in D + Gold Collisions ...
Steven Michael Guertin. During the data taking for this research, the RHIC facility was host to experiments in four interaction regions. The experiments are the following. The Broad RAnge [sic] Hadron Magnetic Spectrometers, BRAHMS ...
Steven Michael Guertin, 2008
2
The Art of Writing with the Rapidity of Speech; A System of ...
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Anon, 2008
3
QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter
To take account of the difference between rapidity y and the measured pseudo- rapidity 77, we have to multiply (4.18) by the Jacobian of the y <-> 77 transformation; a simple calculation yields cosh 77 (4.20) where m is the typical mass of the ...
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Edmond Iancu, 2002
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Advances in Nuclear Dynamics 5
Measurements were made at spectrometer angles in the range 14° - 59°. mt- spectra of protons from central collisions were analyzed to derive integrated rapidity distributions and inverse slope as a function of rapidity. The results are compared ...
Wolfgang Bauer, Gary D. Westfall, 1999
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Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions
11.9 Rapidity 11.9.1 Definition Let us define the rapidity, φ,by tanhφ ≡ β≡ v c . ( 11.54) A few properties of the hyperbolic trig functions are given in Appendix A. In particular, tanhφ ≡ (eφ − e−φ)/(eφ + e−φ). The rapidity defined in Eq. (11.54) is ...
David Morin, 2008
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Hermogenes' on Types of Style
Such a speech also needs Rapidity, so that not only will its Grandeur and Beauty shine forth clearly but it will also be rapid. That which is flat and carelessly constructed is the opposite of Rapidity. Rapidity is seen in the style and in the ...
Hermogenes, 1987
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The Philosophy of Grammar
He moved with astonishing rapidity. His movements were astonishingly rapid. His rapid movements astonished us. His movements astonished us by their rapidity. The rapidity of his movements was astonishing. The rapidity with which he ...
Otto Jespersen, 1992
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Strong Interactions and Gauge Theories: Proceedings of the ...
Multiplicity distribution for the full rapidity range can be, and has also been calculated by taking the contributions of the P* and the T* into account3' The agreement between data**' and the calculated result has led us to the conclusion that ...
J. Thanh Van Tran, 1986
9
Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions
Multiplicity distributions and (pseudo-)rapidity distributions of charged particles characterize the global features of the nucleus-nucleus collisions, A large amount of data has been obtained from the experiments at CERN in the last few years1.
Rudolph C. Hwa, Chong-shou Gao, Minghan Ye, 1990
10
Climate, History and the Modern World
Several climatologists, notably Bryson, Flohn and Manley, have drawn attention to the apparently great rapidity of a number of major climatic changes in the past. For example, three major coolings covering perhaps half, and in two cases more  ...
H. H. Lamb, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAPIDITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rapidity is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Futurist: Sarasota and the speed of social change
When I speak about the rapidity of social change, I usually start off with a question for the audience to answer quietly to themselves. “What did you think about ... «Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Vivus.ge Offering Service for the Modern Generation
Consumer-oriented products, simplicity and rapidity are the main factors that have contributed to the popularity of the company in such a short time. “4Finance is ... «The FINANCIAL, Jul 15»
3
Secret Sauce For Corporate Success: Knowing To Use Teams
HOW CAN BUSINESSES achieve great–and sustainable–growth in a world where the rapidity of change continually intensifies? How do successful startups ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
4
States' Rights, Depending on the Issue
The remarkable rapidity with which Southern conservatives have called for removing the Confederate flag, in the wake of the vicious racist murders in ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
Rapidity adds to wide-format offering
Rapidity has taken on an additional employee with expertise in site surveys and installations as a result of the investment. The £6m-turnover firm employs 35 ... «printweek.com, Jun 15»
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ECB's Coeure: rapidity of recent European bond selloff is worrying
"It is the rapidity of the reversal that worries me more." "After several similar episodes, it is yet another incident. of extreme volatility in global capital markets ... «Reuters, May 15»
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How binding is the zero lower bound?
It is the rapidity of the reversal that worries me more. After several similar episodes, it is yet another incident of extreme volatility in global capital markets ... «EU News, May 15»
8
Nepal aid: Josh's pride in earthquake relief work
It's not just the generosity, it's the rapidity of the response. This is why I was able to go out there and immediately carry out life saving work because we knew we ... «West End Extra, May 15»
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HBO's Scientology Documentary Uses The Church's Own Tricks On …
... extending the boundaries beyond any boundary, not to mention godspeed, lightning speed, and a quantum leap in sheer rapidity of progress up The Bridge!'”. «ThinkProgress, Mar 15»
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Rapidity adopts Infigo MegaEdit for Catfish
B2B print company Rapidity hopes to break into new sectors after signing up to use Infigo Software's MegaEdit photobook platform run through its Catfish set-up. «printweek.com, Mar 15»

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