as in velocity
a high rate of movement or performance
the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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Having to react simultaneously to the rapidity of change in the industry with the frustrations of a slow process.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The two live cuts from 1965, on which Bell is accompanied by the bassist Larry Gales and the drummer Ben Riley—both members of Thelonious Monk’s quartet—reflect a darkly moody fervor roiling its surfaces and feature passages of nerve-fraying rapidity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The thrusters in question were facing the sun during long stretches of the Starliner's approach to the station and engineers suspect the problems experienced earlier were related high temperatures and the rapidity of firings during final approach.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 July 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The two live cuts from 1965, on which Bell is accompanied by the bassist Larry Gales and the drummer Ben Riley—both members of Thelonious Monk’s quartet—reflect a darkly moody fervor roiling its surfaces and feature passages of nerve-fraying rapidity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The thrusters in question were facing the sun during long stretches of the Starliner's approach to the station and engineers suspect the problems experienced earlier were related high temperatures and the rapidity of firings during final approach.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 July 2024
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“Rapidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapidity. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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