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the celerity
noun
Speed.
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At first, Hugo can't adapt to her vacillating moods, the celerity with which she moves from lassitude to exuberance, her drunken rages and bouts of depression.
(But who will do Millard Fillmore?) Having initiated this trend with the Penguin Lives, in partnership with Viking and the financier Ken Lipper, I'm stunned by the celerity with which it has been adopted.
Before dawn one spring morning at the Fulton Fish Market, as we were admiring a machete-wielding Ecuadorean who, with the celerity of a Jedi, was quartering and trimming a mattress-sized yellowfin tuna, Pasternack noticed a neatly pressed silver-haired gent standing nearby.
It is generally expressed as Fr = v/ gd)1/2, in which d is depth of flow, g is the gravitational acceleration (equal to the specific weight of the water divided by its density, in fluid mechanics), v is the celerity of a small surface (or gravity) wave, and Fr is the Froude number.
In 1929 he went to the Old Vic and within a year he had played Macbeth, Hamlet, Oberon, Orlando, Romeo again and Richard II, and was instantly established as an outstanding and a very modern Shakespearean, eschewing the ponderous and orotund vocal manners of tradition, astonishing audiences with the celerity of his thinking and the directness of his emotional response.
Here, T and c are, respectively, the tension of the string and the celerity of light.
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Among the celerities present were Fletcher Pratt and the rocket expert Willy Ley.
The method was used to eliminate the restriction due to the wave celerity for the computational analysis of unsteady open-channel flows.
The focus in this analysis is placed on the influence of the temporal correlation scale and the wave celerity coefficient on the PDF of the flow discharge.
Analyses are presented relating to: (i) the relative wave height (H/d); (ii) the wave celerity; (iii) the two-dimensional distribution of the particle velocities components; finally (iv) the average wave direction and spreading angle were carried out.
In this analysis, only the particle velocity in the direction of wave propagation (u o ) is considered and according to Munk (1949), linearization of mean particle velocity in horizontal direction can be determined as follows: (13 where is the mean particle velocity in horizontal direction, C the wave celerity, h the water depth, and η the water free surface elevation.
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