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   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, and its stride length. Solving for speed, the equation is: Speed (m/sec)=0.25:(stride length)1.67:(leg length)-1.17:(gravitational constant)0.5 The gravitational constant is 9.8 m/sec2. Leg length ...
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   Speed
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   Speed is the rate of time at which something moves, travels, proceeds or operates.
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   Speed is a city in Phillips County Kansas, USA Speed is a town in Edgecombe County North Carolina, USA
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   Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine.
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   Speed is slang for the drug amphetamine sulphate.
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   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 )
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   [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
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   Amphetamines (slang).
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    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.
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    (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Gravity) Distance moved divided by time taken.
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    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*.
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    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 true airspeed from which the component caused by t...
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    SPEED
    Early system on LGP-30. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
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    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.
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    Common street name for amphetamines(primarily Methedrine)and,sometimes,certain other stimulant drugs Category: General
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    A measure of the sensitivity to light of a photographic emulsion.
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    Definition (keystage 2) How fast something is moving, how fast its position is changing. Units for speed include kilometres per hour, miles per hour, metres per second.
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    Definition (keystage 3) How fast something is moving; how far it travels each second. Speed does not depend on direction; speed is a scalar quantity. The vector that measures speed and direction is called velocity.<br /> Speed has dimensions LT - 1 , and SI unit ms - 1 .
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    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. ] 1. Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. 'For common speed .' Chaucer. « O Lord God of my mas ...
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    Speed (spēd) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sped (spĕd), Speeded ; present participle & verbal noun Speeding .] [ Anglo-Saxon spēdan , from spēd , noun ; akin to Dutch spoeden , G. sich sputen . See Speed , noun ] 1.
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    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 make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. « He sped him thence home to his habitation ...
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    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. 'Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For wh ...
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    swiftness noun a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; `the project advanced with gratifying speed`
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    speeding noun changing location rapidly
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