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Definition of Rapidities
1. rapidity [n] - See also: rapidity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapidities
Literary usage of Rapidities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Optical Geometry of Motion: A New View of the Theory of Relativity by Alfred Arthur Robb (1911)
"It will be observed that rapidities may be as great as we please, but velocities
must always be less than a certain finite quantity ..."
2. A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1908)
"... two rapidities of vibration imparted to the diaphragm from within will be the
same as it received from without in the original performance of the music. ..."
3. The Dictionary of Photography for the Amateur and Professional Photographer by Edward John Wall (1902)
"... one of the first instruments which came into general use for determining the
relative rapidities of plates ..."
4. A Condensed Course in Motion Picture Photography by Charles Wilbur Hoffman, Carl Louis Gregory (1920)
"In the early days of gelatine dry plates their rapidities were stated as so many
times those of wet plates, or (as they are still) "ordinary," ..."
5. Commercial Economy in Steam and Other Thermal Power-plants: As Dependent by Robert Henry Smith (1905)
"These two rapidities result as much from outside surrounding conditions as from
those of the active materials, and the two result from entirely separate and ..."
6. The Mining World Index of Current Literature by George E Sisley (1914)
"[On the rapidities of the absorption of hydrogen and oxygen by solutions of
metallic salts].—Zts. Elektrochemie 1914 No. 12; p 370; p 800; 7700 w*; 45c. ..."
7. Photographic Optics: A Text Book for the Professional and Amateur by William Kinninmond Burton (1891)
"The relative rapidities are directly as the squares of their fractions; ...
Thus squaring the fractions, the rapidities of the lenses represented by them ..."
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