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cities
(encz) | cities,města n: Zdeněk Brož |
cities
(encz) | cities,velkoměsta n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Cities
(gcide) | City \Cit"y\ (s[i^]t"[y^]), n.; pl. Cities (s[i^]t"[i^]z).
[OE. cite, F. cit['e], fr. L. civitas citizenship, state,
city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja
man of the house), AS. h[imac]wan, pl., members of a family,
servants, h[imac]red family, G. heirath marriage, prop.,
providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]
1. A large town.
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2. A corporate town; in the United States, a town or
collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed
by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a
board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain,
a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a
bishop, or the capital of his see.
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A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has
been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric
has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet
remaineth a city. --Blackstone
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When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course
meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word
city has no other meaning in English law. --Palfrey
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3. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
"What is the city but the people?" --Shak.
Syn: See Village.
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atrocities
(encz) | atrocities,ohavnosti n: Zdeněk Brožatrocities,zvěrstva n: Zdeněk Brož |
capacities
(encz) | capacities,kapacity n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
cities
(encz) | cities,města n: Zdeněk Brožcities,velkoměsta n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
duplicities
(encz) | duplicities, |
felicities
(encz) | felicities, |
infelicities
(encz) | infelicities,nemístnosti n: Zdeněk Brožinfelicities,nevhodnosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
scarcities
(encz) | scarcities, |
simplicities
(encz) | simplicities, |
specificities
(encz) | specificities, |
velocities
(encz) | velocities,rychlosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
Atrocities
(gcide) | Atrocity \A*troc"i*ty\, n.; pl. Atrocities. [F. atrocit['e],
L. atrocitas, fr. atrox, atrocis, cruel.]
1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
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2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
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The atrocities which attend a victory. --Macaulay.
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Capacities
(gcide) | Capacity \Ca*pac"i*ty\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl.
Capacities (-t[i^]z). [L. capacitus, fr. capax, capacis;
fr. F. capacit['e]. See Capacious.]
1. The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or
space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical
things.
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Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together.
--Shak.
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The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. --Boyle.
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2. The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.;
the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty;
capability of understanding or feeling.
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Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere
passive operations of the mind]; its primary
signification, which is literally room for, as well
as its employment, favors this; although it can not
be denied that there are examples of its usage in an
active sense. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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3. Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the
possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of
being or of doing.
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The capacity of blessing the people. --Alex.
Hamilton.
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A cause with such capacities endued. --Blackmore.
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4. Outward condition or circumstances; occupation;
profession; character; position; as, to work in the
capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
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5. (Law) Legal or moral qualification, as of age, residence,
character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for
holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, wills,
etc.; legal power or right; competency.
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Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances
differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a
given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference
is the measure of, or depends upon, what is called their
capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.
Syn: Ability; faculty; talent; capability; skill; efficiency;
cleverness. See Ability.
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central reserve cities
(gcide) | Reserve city \Reserve city\ (Banking)
In the national banking system of the United States, any of
certain cities in which the national banks are required (--U.
S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per
cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other
banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities
(specifically called central reserve cities) are required
to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve
cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these
banks (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195).
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In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store;
as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has
evidence or arguments in reserve.
Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under
Supplemental.
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Syn: Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness;
reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness;
modesty.
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Cities of refuge
(gcide) | Refuge \Ref"uge\ (r?f"?j), n. [F. r['e]fuge, L. refugium, fr.
refugere to flee back; pref. re- + figere. SEe Fugitive.]
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1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
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Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these
Find place or refuge. --Milton.
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We might have a strong consolation, who have fled
for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
--Heb. vi. 18.
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2. That which shelters or protects from danger, or from
distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its
strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its
sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
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The high hills are a refuger the wild goats. --Ps.
civ. 18.
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The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed.
--Ps. ix. 9.
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3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or
contrivance.
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Their latest refuge
Was to send him. --Shak.
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Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by
terracing ??? story in danger of darkness. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed
as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed
homicide without design. Of these there were three on each
side of Jordan. --Josh. xx.
House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving
shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or
tempted.
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Syn: Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.
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Complicities
(gcide) | Complicity \Com*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Complicities. [F.
complicit['e].]
The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
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duplicities
(gcide) | duplicity \du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. duplicities. [F.
duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See
Duplex.]
1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
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Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any
certain number of parts in your division of things.
--I. Watts.
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2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained
form of deception which consists in entertaining or
pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as
if influenced by another; bad faith.
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Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he
acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
--Burke.
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3. (Law)
(a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or
answers, where one is sufficient. --Blackstone.
(b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible
offenses. --Wharton.
Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception;
falsehood.
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Eccentricities
(gcide) | Eccentricity \Ec`cen*tric"i*ty\, n.; pl. Eccentricities. [Cf.
F. excentricit['e].]
1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary
line of conduct; oddity.
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2. (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and
the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its
semi-transverse axis.
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3. (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the
orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round
which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the
orbit.
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4. (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as
of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the
throw.
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Electricities
(gcide) | Electricity \E`lec*tric"i*ty\ ([=e]`l[e^]k*tr[i^]s"[i^]*t[y^]),
n.; pl. Electricities ([=e]`l[e^]k*tr[i^]s"[i^]*t[i^]z).
[Cf. F. ['e]lectricit['e]. See Electric.]
1. (Physics) a property of certain of the fundamental
particles of which matter is composed, called also
electric charge, and being of two types, designated
positive and negative; the property of electric charge on
a particle or physical body creates a force field which
affects other particles or bodies possessing electric
charge; positive charges create a repulsive force between
them, and negative charges also create a repulsive force.
A positively charged body and a negatively charged body
will create an attractive force between them. The unit of
electrical charge is the coulomb, and the intensity of
the force field at any point is measured in volts.
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2. any of several phenomena associated with the accumulation
or movement of electrically charged particles within
material bodies, classified as static electricity and
electric current. Static electricity is often observed
in everyday life, when it causes certain materials to
cling together; when sufficient static charge is
accumulated, an electric current may pass through the air
between two charged bodies, and is observed as a visible
spark; when the spark passes from a human body to another
object it may be felt as a mild to strong painful
sensation. Electricity in the form of electric current is
put to many practical uses in electrical and electronic
devices. Lightning is also known to be a form of electric
current passing between clouds and the ground, or between
two clouds. Electric currents may produce heat, light,
concussion, and often chemical changes when passed between
objects or through any imperfectly conducting substance or
space. Accumulation of electrical charge or generation of
a voltage differnce between two parts of a complex object
may be caused by any of a variety of disturbances of
molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical,
or mechanical, cause. Electric current in metals and most
other solid coductors is carried by the movement of
electrons from one part of the metal to another. In ionic
solutions and in semiconductors, other types of movement
of charged particles may be responsible for the observed
electrical current.
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Note: Electricity is manifested under following different
forms: (a)
Statical electricity, called also
Frictional electricity or Common electricity, electricity
in the condition of a stationary charge, in which the
disturbance is produced by friction, as of glass, amber,
etc., or by induction. (b)
Dynamical electricity, called also
Voltaic electricity, electricity in motion, or as a current
produced by chemical decomposition, as by means of a
voltaic battery, or by mechanical action, as by
dynamo-electric machines. (c)
Thermoelectricity, in which the disturbing cause is heat
(attended possibly with some chemical action). It is
developed by uniting two pieces of unlike metals in a bar,
and then heating the bar unequally. (d)
Atmospheric electricity, any condition of electrical
disturbance in the atmosphere or clouds, due to some or
all of the above mentioned causes. (e)
Magnetic electricity, electricity developed by the action
of magnets. (f)
Positive electricity, the electricity that appears at the
positive pole or anode of a battery, or that is produced
by friction of glass; -- called also {vitreous
electricity}. (g)
Negative electricity, the electricity that appears at the
negative pole or cathode, or is produced by the friction
of resinous substance; -- called also resinous
electricity. (h)
Organic electricity, that which is developed in organic
structures, either animal or vegetable, the phrase animal
electricity being much more common.
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3. The science which studies the phenomena and laws of
electricity; electrical science.
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4. Fig.: excitement, anticipation, or emotional tension,
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Felicities
(gcide) | Felicity \Fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Felicities. [OE. felicite, F.
f['e]licit['e], fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy,
fruitful; akin to fetus.]
1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness;
enjoyment of good.
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Our own felicity we make or find. --Johnson.
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Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy
and felicity. --Book of
Common Prayer.
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2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying
event; prosperity; blessing.
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the felicities of her wonderful reign. --Atterbury.
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3. A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in
painting portraits, or in writing or talking. "Felicity of
expression." --Bp. Warburton.
Syn: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness.
See Happiness.
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free cities
(gcide) | Hanse \Hanse\, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. &
Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h[=o]s band, troop.]
An association; a league or confederacy.
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Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany
which associated themselves for the protection and
enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also
Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in
1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At
one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its
remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are {free
cities}, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.
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Incapacities
(gcide) | Incapacity \In`ca*pac"i*ty\, n.; pl. Incapacities. [Cf. F.
incapacit['e].]
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1. Lack of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power;
inability.
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2. (Law) Lack of legal ability or competency to do, give,
transmit, or receive something; inability;
disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make
binding contracts, etc.
Syn: Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness;
disqualification; disability.
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Infelicities
(gcide) | Infelicity \In`fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Infelicities. [L.
infelicitas: cf. F. inf['e]licit['e]. See In- not, and
Felicity.]
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1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness;
misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or
appropriateness. --I. Watts.
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Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the
present state, we were made wise and happy.
--Glanvill.
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2. That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is
infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.
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Mendacities
(gcide) | Mendacity \Men*dac"i*ty\, n.; pl. Mendacities. [L.
mendacitas.]
1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
lying. --Macaulay.
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2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne.
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Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood.
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Parallelogram of velocities
(gcide) | Parallelogram \Par`al*lel"o*gram\, n. [Gr. ?; ? parallel + ? to
write: cf. F. parall['e]logramme. See Parallel, and
-gram.] (Geom.)
A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are
parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in
popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which
is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
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Parallelogram of velocities, parallelogram of forces,
parallelogram of accelerations, parallelogram of momenta,
etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which
represents the resultant of two velocities, forces,
accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and
direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations,
momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction
by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.
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Periodicities
(gcide) | Periodicity \Pe`ri*o*dic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Periodicities. [Cf. F.
p['e]riodicit['e].]
The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly
recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of
plants. --Henfrey.
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Principle of virtual velocities
(gcide) | Virtual \Vir"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. virtuel. See Virtue.]
1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy
without the agency of the material or sensible part;
potential; energizing.
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Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without
communication of substance. --Bacon.
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Every kind that lives,
Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed. --Milton.
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2. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual
presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
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A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the
conditions necessary to its actual existence.
--Fleming.
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To mask by slight differences in the manners a
virtual identity in the substance. --De Quincey.
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Principle of virtual velocities (Mech.), the law that when
several forces are in equilibrium, the algebraic sum of
their virtual moments is equal to zero.
Virtual focus (Opt.), the point from which rays, having
been rendered divergent by reflection of refraction,
appear to issue; the point at which converging rays would
meet if not reflected or refracted before they reach it.
Virtual image. (Optics) See under Image.
Virtual moment (of a force) (Mech.), the product of the
intensity of the force multiplied by the virtual velocity
of its point of application; -- sometimes called {virtual
work}.
Virtual velocity (Mech.), a minute hypothetical
displacement, assumed in analysis to facilitate the
investigation of statical problems. With respect to any
given force of a number of forces holding a material
system in equilibrium, it is the projection, upon the
direction of the force, of a line joining its point of
application with a new position of that point indefinitely
near to the first, to which the point is conceived to have
been moved, without disturbing the equilibrium of the
system, or the connections of its parts with each other.
Strictly speaking, it is not a velocity but a length.
Virtual work. (Mech.) See Virtual moment, above.
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Speciocities
(gcide) | Speciosity \Spe`ci*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. Speciocities. [Cf. LL.
speciositas.]
1. The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.
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Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead
of performance. --Carlyle.
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2. That which is specious. --Dr. H. More.
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Velocities
(gcide) | Velocity \Ve*loc"i*ty\, n.; pl. Velocities. [L. velocitas,
from velox, -ocis, swift, quick; perhaps akin to volare to
fly (see Volatile): cf. F. v['e]locit['e].]
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1. Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity;
as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or
comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon
ball; the velocity of light.
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Note: In such phrases, velocity is more generally used than
celerity. We apply celerity to animals; as, a horse or
an ostrich runs with celerity; but bodies moving in the
air or in ethereal space move with greater or less
velocity, not celerity. This usage is arbitrary, and
perhaps not universal.
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2. (Mech.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time,
measured by the number of units of space passed over by a
moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number
of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under
Speed.
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Angular velocity. See under Angular.
Initial velocity, the velocity of a moving body at
starting; especially, the velocity of a projectile as it
leaves the mouth of a firearm from which it is discharged.
Relative velocity, the velocity with which a body
approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are
moving or only one.
Uniform velocity, velocity in which the same number of
units of space are described in each successive unit of
time.
Variable velocity, velocity in which the space described
varies from instant to instant, either increasing or
decreasing; -- in the former case called accelerated
velocity, in the latter, retarded velocity; the
acceleration or retardation itself being also either
uniform or variable.
Virtual velocity. See under Virtual.
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Note: In variable velocity, the velocity, strictly, at any
given instant, is the rate of motion at that instant,
and is expressed by the units of space, which, if the
velocity at that instant were continued uniform during
a unit of time, would be described in the unit of time;
thus, the velocity of a falling body at a given instant
is the number of feet which, if the motion which the
body has at that instant were continued uniformly for
one second, it would pass through in the second. The
scientific sense of velocity differs from the popular
sense in being applied to all rates of motion, however
slow, while the latter implies more or less rapidity or
quickness of motion.
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Syn: Swiftness; celerity; rapidity; fleetness; speed.
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twin cities
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n 1: nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis |
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