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What does rapidity mean?

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Noun
  1. speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
  2. (physics) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light
  3. (physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
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However, neither the scale of the phenomenon nor its rapidity of onset during or following allopolyploidization is known.
What's striking about the sequence is the rapidity with which the numbers grow larger.
But, if by any accident the parachute is not expanded as he falls, the rapidity of the fall will not be checked.
To record the rapidity, force, breadth, or intensity of movements, Laban required additional notations.
You mentioned being fascinated by the rapidity of some of these electronic devices.
For example, there are several cases on record of third-degree burns healing with extraordinary rapidity.

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