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rapidity

[ruh-pid-i-tee] / rəˈpɪd ɪ ti /


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In this franchise, the rapidity of change runs parallel to the infestation of anger.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

The rapidity of space exploration is now “outpacing our laws”, he says.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2024

"Its simplicity and rapidity make it particularly well-suited for studying metabolic changes."

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Meditation suggests it might be possible, but the rapidity with which our internal terrain changes makes the possibility of any definitive guide all but impossible.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

He pointed out that the rapidity with which poisons can spread throughout the entire body fitted in with the idea that the blood is continually circulating.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h.

From Time Magazine Archive

Loudon returned thither from Vienna April 7th; but is not to command in chief, this Year,—Schweidnitz still sticking in some people's throats: "Dangerous; a man with such rash practices, rapidities and Pandour tendencies!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

Different kinds of apples brown with different rapidities, and the browning always begins at the core.

From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison

He hadn't even to dot his i's beyond the remark that on the very face of it, she would remember, their wonderful system attached no premium to rapidities of transition.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

Between these numbers are those of different rapidities, which affect the eye—as orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, in an almost infinite number of shades—according to the sensitiveness of the eye.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren


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