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rapidity

noun
/ɹəˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/

Etymology

From rapid + -ity, from French rapidité, from Latin rapiditas.

  1. derived from rapiditas
  2. derived from rapidité

Definitions

  1. speed, swiftness

    speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid

  2. A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light

    A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).

  3. A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at rapidity

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