Definition of Celerities

1. celerity [n] - See also: celerity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Celerities

celebs
celebutant
celebutante
celebutantes
celebutants
celebutard
celebutards
celectome
celenteron
celeriac
celeriacs
celeries
celeripede
celeripedes
celerities (current term)
celeritous
celerity
celery
celery-topped pine
celery blight
celery cabbage
celery pine
celery root
celery salt
celery seed
celery seeds
celery stick

Literary usage of Celerities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions: Containing (besides what is Common by Thomas Simpson (1823)
"It follows from hence, that the relative celerities in any two different ... From whence it appears, that the celerities in the directions Dn, Cn, ..."

2. Rohault's System of Natural Philosophy by Jacques Rohault (1735)
"or to AC, ac; or to the celerities generated by the ... will be proportionable to the celerities after the ..."

3. A Short Treatise of the General Laws of Motion and Centripetal Forces by George Pirrie (1720)
"... being the feme or equal, nor yet the celerities,, the Proportion of the Spaces is; compounded ot the direct Proportions of the Times and celerities. ..."

4. Philosophia Britannica: Or, A New & Comprehensive System of the Newtonian by Benjamin Martin (1747)
"... unequal Circles with equal celerities, the central Forces will be ... when neither the Periodical Times nor the celerities are given. And in that Cafe, ..."

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