English Online Dictionary. What means velocity? What does velocity mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle French vélocité, from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”), from vēlōx (“fast”), thus a doublet of veloce.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vəˈlɒsəti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vəˈlɑsəti/
- Rhymes: -ɒsɪti
Noun
velocity (countable and uncountable, plural velocities)
- (physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
- Rapidity of motion.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:speed
- The rate of occurrence.
- (economics) The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.
Synonyms
- (rapidity of motion; rate of occurrence): speed
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- constant velocity
- four-velocity
- root mean square velocity
- velocimeter
- velocity curve
- velocity dispersion
- velocity potential