See Also: velocity(dictionary)
Velocity(money)
VELOCITY(finance)
velocity(dictionary)
Velocity(medicine)
velocity(encyclopedia)
Alfven velocity(medicine)
CHINA VELOCITY(finance)
sedimentation velocity(medicine)
escape velocity(dictionary)

velocity (iou)



velocity noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French velocite or Latin velocitas, from veloc-, velox swift, rapid: see -ITY.]
Rapidity of motion, operation, or action; swiftness, speed. LME.
A. Powell Henchman..moved with almost startling velocity on aluminium shoulder-crutches.
Relative speed; the measure of the rate of motion. M17.
escape velocity, muzzle velocity, seismic velocity, terminal velocity, etc.
b. Economics. The rate at which money changes hands; the rate of spending in an economy. E20.
Speed together with direction of travel, as a vector quantity; the measure of the rate of motion of an object in a given direction. M19.
angular velocity, radial velocity, etc.
Comb.: velocity head the velocity pressure of a fluid expressed in terms of the height from which the fluid would have to fall to attain the velocity exerting this pressure; velocity microphone a microphone whose diaphragm is freely exposed to the air on both sides and so responds to the particle velocity within a sound wave rather than the pressure; velocity modulation Electronics variation of the velocity of an electron beam by alternate acceleration and retardation in a high-frequency electric field, as in some cathode-ray tubes; velocity potential a scalar function of position such that its space derivatives at any point are the components of the fluid velocity at that point; velocity pressure that part of the total pressure exerted by a fluid which is due to the velocity it possesses; velocity profile (a diagram of) the variation in velocity along a line at right angles to the general direction of flow.