rapidity

  1. Noun.  speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid.
  2. Noun.  (physics) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light.
  3. Noun.  (physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam#s axis.

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