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velocity

[vuh-los-i-tee] / vəˈlɒs ɪ ti /


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These high velocity impacts shattered enormous volumes of rock beneath the surface while vaporizing material and scattering molten rock across the landscape.

From Science Daily • Jul. 2, 2026

Here he exploited the Venturi principle, which shows that the velocity of a fluid or gas increases as it passes through a constriction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

This abrupt shift suggests downside velocity is accelerating.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Since then, the fruits of that evolving relationship have included a new, harder splitter, and even more recently, an uptick in fastball velocity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

"That'll get the intercept range to zero, but the intercept velocity will be forty-two meters per second."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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