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velocity

[vuh-los-i-tee] / vəˈlɒs ɪ ti /


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Stafford, 38, won his first MVP award and — if preseason joint practices and workouts are any indication — shows no signs that he lost a step or velocity and touch on his passes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

Nominal GDP is also growing faster than the money supply, which means the velocity of money, or nominal GDP divided by the money supply, is rising.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

He translated an infield single with an exit velocity of 37 mph into everyday language: “That’s driving in the school zone.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

But if there is one clue that begins to illuminate the greatest mystery of the 2026 baseball season, it’s in Skenes’s velocity.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle shows that there is no possible way to measure the pencil’s length—or an electron’s position—and its velocity with perfect accuracy at the same time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The real cause for the explosion in torn ulnar collateral ligaments is now believed to be high velocities.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

The resulting simulations replicate the masses, locations, and motions of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as well as the positions and velocities of 31 galaxies just outside the Local Group.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2026

"These theories assume that one is describing something with well-defined velocities and energies," explains Diana Kirschbaum.

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2026

These days, sessions on the range are more about monitoring swing velocities and spin rates than where the ball actually lands.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 26, 2025

In the real universe, however, the galaxies are not just moving directly away from each other—they also have small sideways velocities.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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