Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
rapidity
IPA transcription: [ɹəp'ɪdəti]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
Meaning:
a rate that is rapid
Usage examples
It moved with a rapidity that made it impossible for anything to escape it.
When De Winter perceived them, in his turn he advanced toward them with surprising rapidity.
For that matter, the whole transaction had been characterised by almost unbelievable rapidity.
Being a very clever navigator, he made the transit through the Strait of Magellan with great rapidity.
The rapidity of the motion and the darkness together--for it seemed darkness now--I confess made me frightened.
Well, then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am certain to rise with great rapidity."
This semaphore arm remained rigid for a second, threatening; then it vibrated with inconceivable rapidity, feinting.
This end is not always attained with equal certainty and rapidity, if Apis is not given in alternation with Aconite.
He has a long garden-implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death-rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity.
Meanwhile Dick had dressed with more rapidity than ever before in his life, fully alive to the great dangers that threatened.