Definitions
distance travelled per unit time
Word origin
From Middle French vélocité, from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”), from vēlōx (“fast”), thus a doublet of veloce.
Used in a sentence
“A car racing in a circle may retain the same speed while continually changing its velocity.”
“Such angular distances imply undecelerated ejecta knot transverse velocities of 15,600 and 12,700 km/s respectively, assuming an explosion date ~1670 AD and a distance of 3.4 kpc.”
“When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Speed with direction”8 letters
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