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Look up: speed

  1. Speed
    Speed is slang for the drug amphetamine sulphate.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. SPEED
    Early system on LGP-30. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
    Found on http://foldoc.org/SPEED

  3. Speed
    Speed is slang for the drug amphetamine sulphate.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  4. Speed
    Paleontologists can deduce approximate dinosaur speeds by using fossilized trackway and the dinosaur's skeletal structure. In 1976, the British zoologist R. McNeill Alexander used elephants, birds, people, and many other living animals to formulate an equation relating an animal's speed, leg length,...
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  5. Speed
    Related:prepayment speed
    Found on http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial

  6. Speed
    Sensitivity of a photographic emulsion to light. Films are given ISO numbers which denotes its speed. The term is also used to denote the maximum aperture of a lens. (see Fast film,Fast lens ,Film speed, Slow film, Slow lens & ISO )
    Found on http://www.peterashbyhayter.co.uk/glossa

  7. speed
    [n] - distance travelled per unit time 2. [n] - a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens 3. [n] - changing location rapidly 4. [v] - travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  8. Speed
    Amphetamines (slang).
    Found on http://thewellnessshop.co.uk/healthandwe

  9. Speed
    Speed is the rate at which distance is covered. The SI unit of speed is the metre per second. Other units include feet per second, kilometres per hour and miles per hour.
    Found on http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/computing/

  10. speed
    (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Gravity) Distance moved divided by time taken.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  11. speed
    Speed is the rate of change in distance. In other words, how quickly something moves through a given distance. It is normally measured in m/s and its formula is speed = distance ÷ time. See also velocity*.
    Found on http://www.gcse.com/glos.htm

  12. Speed
    The rate at which a body moves through space. Airspeed is measured on the ASI (Air Speed Indicator) and differs both from the true airspeed and the groundspeed. The true airspeed is the indicated airspeed corrected for variations caused by changes in temperature and pressure. The groundspeed is the ...
    Found on http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/glossary

  13. Speed
    Speed: Common street name for a stimulant drug, especially for an amphetamine. Amphetamines have been used to treat hyperactivity in children, the symptoms of narcolepsy, and as an appetite suppressant and they are also frequently abused as a stimulant of the central nervous system.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  14. speed
    Common street name for amphetamines(primarily Methedrine)and,sometimes,certain other stimulant drugs Category: General
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  15. Speed
    A measure of the sensitivity to light of a photographic emulsion.
    Found on http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%

  16. Speed
    Speed noun [ Anglo-Saxon sp...d success, swiftness, from sp...wan to succeed; akin to Dutch spoed d, Old High German spuot success, spuot to succees, Sanskrit sphā to increase, grow fat. √170 b....
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/159

  17. Speed
    Speed (spēd) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sped (spĕd), Speeded ; present participle & verbal noun Speeding .] [ Anglo-Saxon spēdan , f...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/159

  18. Speed
    Speed transitive verb 1. To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. 'Fortune speed us!' Shak. « With rising gales that speed their happy flight.» Dryden. 2. To cause to...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/159

  19. speed
    1. To go; to fare. 'To warn him now he is too farre sped.' (Remedy of Love) ... 2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. 'Ships heretofore in seas lke fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.' (Waller) ... 3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. 'S...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  20. speed
    swiftness noun a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; `the project advanced with gratifying speed`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  21. speed
    speeding noun changing location rapidly
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  22. speed
    velocity noun distance travelled per unit time
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  23. Speed
    • (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. • (n.) To go; to fare. • (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. • (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. • (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper. • (v. t....
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  24. speed
    (from the article `navigation`) ...units of a day`s sail. Later, distances were deduced from estimates of the ship`s speed and the lengths of time over which these speeds were ... ...In the mid-18th century the French hydraulic engineer Henri Pitot, studying the flow of water in rivers and canals, invented a device—now called ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/138

  25. speed
    in photography, any of those standards that indicate (1) the size of the lens opening, or aperture, (2) the duration of exposure, and (3) the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/138



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9 February 2012

This day in history:
At 7.01pm on 9 February 1996, the IRA ended its 17-month ceasefire with a blast that rocked east London, injured more than 100 people, one critically, and thrust Northern Ireland back into political ferment. After one hour of shock and hectic checking with the security forces who, like the Government, were taken 'completely by surprise', Prime Minister John Major attacked the bombing as 'an appalling outrage'. He called upon Sinn Fein and the IRA to condemn unequivocally those who planted the bomb near South Quay railway station on the Isle of Dogs. read more

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