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Definition of Terminal velocity
1. Noun. The constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity.
Definition of Terminal velocity
1. Noun. The speed at which an object in free-fall and not in a vacuum ceases to accelerate downwards because the force of gravity is equal and opposite to the drag force acting against it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terminal Velocity
Literary usage of Terminal velocity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"... of the drops as they descend, but as we are ignorant of the nature and amount
of this change we can not determine its effect on the terminal velocity. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"... can not determine its effect on the terminal velocity. IlJ instead of assuming
the descending globule to consist of water throughout its whole volume, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"terminal velocity. The uniform velocity which a body obtains when, after falling
through the atmosphere, the resistance of the air has become equal to the ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"Hence the formula for the terminal velocity of a shell should be / V 3 Dp '°rV
3 Dp ; D- <?r F42 ..."
5. A Text-book of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1907)
"Hence, if the preceding solution holds, we see, by substituting for V the value
of so that the terminal velocity is proportional to the square of the radius ..."
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