Definition of "velocity" []

• Rapidity or speed of motion; swiftness. (noun)
• Physics A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion. (noun)
• The rate of speed of action or occurrence. (noun)
• The rate at which money changes hands in an economy. (noun)

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• "In 1899 Lenard demonstrated the cause to be the emission of electrons at a certain velocity from the negatively charged body."
• "One of the things -- we're working on things like what we call velocity, which is the ability to turn the backlogs faster."
• "And it's what we call the velocity of money still has to improve."