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celerity
UK /sɪˈlɛɹɪti/ US /səˈlɛr.ɪ.ti/
noun 4
Collocations
3ADJ.
all, loose, noiseless, possible, swift
CELERITY + NOUN
death
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
Speed, swiftness.
O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.
...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks,...
2
The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
3
The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
4
The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.
Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title]
...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a rate that is rapid
- quickness
- rapidity
- rapidness
- speediness
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.
Wiktionary02
...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and nigh
Wiktionary03
The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
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