Synonyms for velocity
vəˈlɒs ɪ tive·loc·i·ty

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1. velocity

   Synonyms:
   quickness, swiftness, speed, celerity, rapidity, fleetness

   Antonyms:
   slowness, sluggishness, tardiness, lentor, languor, cumbrousness, inactivity

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1. speed, velocitynoun

   distance travelled per unit time

   Synonyms:
   speeding, amphetamine, fastness, pep pill, speed, swiftness, focal ratio, upper, hurrying, f number, stop number

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1. velocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   swiftness, speed, celerity, fleetness, quickness, rapidity

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1. List of paraphrases for "velocity":

   speed, rate, airspeed

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1. Madison Bumgarner:

   I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, velocity has been kind of climbing.

2. Gavin Parry:

   Ahead of the weekend we're seeing some unwinding of long positions, and less long buying coming in from investors due to the incredible velocity of the yen's appreciation, fast Retailing is also yoking the market this morning.

3. Tim Neilsen:

   They are ejected from the rocket in different directions at high velocity, essentially acting as space buoys, to create a network of measurements that will allow us to see the structure of the aurora over a much wider area than was possible before.

4. Andrew Yanofsky:

   Cargo and containers are at a premium, so we're going to prioritize high-velocity, small items.

5. John Bordi:

   The relative velocity between spacecraft and moon will be 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), so we are screaming by pretty fast, all steps have to go like clockwork to successfully acquire our planned data, because soon after the flyby is complete, the spacecraft needs to be reoriented for our upcoming close approach of Jupiter, which happens only 7 ½ hours later.