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noun

electronics the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level

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Words nearby slew rate

sleuth, sleuthhound, S level, slew, slewed, slew rate, sley, Slezsko, SLIC, slice, slice bar

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Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
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With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
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The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.
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At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
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Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.
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In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
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At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
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If we turn again in a new direction, it will at any rate not be in the direction of a return to autocratic mediævalism.
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Of course he was contemplating the application of a "two year old hickory," as he went on at the rate of two forty.
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This made Jahweh so angry that he smote the people, and slew more than fifty thousand of them.
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