rapidities
- plural of rapidity.
Example Sentences
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Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h.
From Time Magazine Archive
Different kinds of apples brown with different rapidities, and the browning always begins at the core.
From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
I merely look on at the rapidities of change with unalloyed interest.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Between these numbers are those of different rapidities, which affect the eye—as orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, in an almost infinite number of shades—according to the sensitiveness of the eye.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White
Loudon returned thither from Vienna April 7th; but is not to command in chief, this Year,—Schweidnitz still sticking in some people's throats: "Dangerous; a man with such rash practices, rapidities and Pandour tendencies!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
