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Webster 1913 Edition
Celerity
Ce-ler′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
celeritas
, from celer
swiftm speedy: sf. F. célérité
.] Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.
Time, with all its
celerity
, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Celerity
CELERITY
,Noun.
1.
Rapidity in motion; swiftness; speed; applied most generally to bodies moving on or near the earth; as the celerity of horse or of a fowl. We speak of the velocity of sound or of light, or of a planet in its orbit. This distinction however is not general, nor can the different uses of the two words be precisely defined. We apply celerity rather than velocity to thought; but there seems to be no reason, except usage, why the two words should not be synonymous.2.
An affection of motion by which a movable body runs through a given space in a given time.