velocity

Example Sentences

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As far as baseball, he added a slider this season, picked up some velocity and tries to throw three pitches for strikes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

"The spectra revealed that the signatures of the high-temperature plasma change velocity between the three observations, following the orbital motion of the white dwarf rather than that of the Be star," the researcher continues.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Developer velocity refers to the speed and efficiency with which software teams make high-quality code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The fear is that sustained higher oil prices could feed back into inflation, just as many parts of the world thought they were finally achieving escape velocity.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

Fast interstellar spaceflight—with the ship velocity approaching the speed of light—-is an objective not for a hundred years but for a thousand or ten thousand.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan