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celerity

noun
/sɪˈlɛɹɪti//səˈlɛr.ɪ.ti/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kel-der. Latin celer Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin celeritāsder. Old French celeriteeder. English celerity From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).

  1. derived from celeritas
  2. derived from celeritee

Definitions

  1. Speed, swiftness.

    • O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.
    • The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.

  2. The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves)

    The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.

  3. The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.

    • Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title]
    • ...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at celerity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at celerity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at celerity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA