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Rapidity

The quality or state of being rapid swiftness celerity velocity as the rapidity of a current rapidity of speech rapidity of growth or improvement...


Rapidness

Quality of being rapid rapidity...


Rapid

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness but without actual waterfall or cascade sometimes called whitewater usually used in the plural as the Lachine rapids in the St Lawrence...


Rapid fire

Firing shots in rapid succession...


Rapidly

In a rapid manner...


Flippant

Of smooth fluent and rapid speech speaking with ease and rapidity having a voluble tongue talkative...


Flying

Moving in the air with or as with wings moving lightly or rapidly intended for rapid movement...


hummingbird

any bird of the family Trochilidaelig of which over one hundred genera are known including about four hundred species They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise the wings are specialized for hovering flight but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects The common humming bird or ruby throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris Several other species are found in the Western United States See Calliope and Ruby throat...


main memory

The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid access storage in a computer also called RAM random access memory It is contrasted to ROM disk data storage cache registers and other forms of data storage...


VerbarMoto

Movement manner of movement particularly movement with increased rapidity used especially in the phrase con moto directing to a somewhat quicker movement as andante con moto a little more rapidly than andante etc...


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