volume velocity

American  

noun

Physics.

1. the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.

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Example Sentences

“The corpus of data has the volume, velocity, and variety to really draw meaningful conclusions,” she told me.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2015

Such events must clearly be accompanied by a complete change in the volume, velocity, and direction of the streams and land floods to which certain regions give passage.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir