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Speed Adjective Synonyms
hasten, make haste, hurry, rush, charge, dart, bolt, shoot, run, race, sprint, fly, streak, scurry, tear, hustle, scramble, scamper, career, bowl along, go or fly like the wind, go hell for leather, go like a bat out of hell, belt along, step on it
Where the road is straight, cars speed along at up to 120 miles per hour.

Speed Noun Synonyms
rapidity, fleetness, quickness, speediness, swiftness, velocity, dispatch or despatch, hurry, hurriedness, haste, hastiness, celerity, alacrity, expeditiousness, expedition, briskness, promptness, timeliness, suddenness, precipitateness, precipitousness,
We reached a speed of Mach 2. What is the speed of your new computer? The speed of her reactions will be recorded during the experiment.

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Bolt / Shoot / Run / Race

Cutting Speed

Business / Machine Shop / Cutting Speed: The surface speed of the workpiece in a lathe or a rotating cutter, commonly expressed in feet per minute (FPM) and converted to revolutions per minute (RPM) for proper setting on the machine. MORE

Film Speed

Technology / Digital Cameras / Film Speed: With traditional film cameras, sensitivity, also known as ISO, represents the film's sensitivity to light. A lower ISO number means that the film needs more light to take a picture than film with a hi MORE

Speed (Of Constituent)

Science / Tides and Currents / Speed (Of Constituent): The rate of change in the phase of a constituent, usually expressed in degrees per hour. The speed is equal to 360?° divided by the constituent period expressed in hours. MORE

Shutter Speed

Technology / Digital Cameras / Shutter Speed: The speed at which a digital camera's shutter exposes the image sensor to light. A shutter speed of 1/60 means that the sensor is exposed to light for 1/60th of a second. Faster shutter speeds are goo MORE

ISO Speed

Technology / Digital Cameras / ISO Speed: A rating of a film's sensitivity to light. Though digital cameras don't use film, they have adopted the same rating system for describing the sensitivity of the camera's imaging sensor. Digital camera MORE

Constant Speed

Technology / Motors / Constant Speed: A DC motor which changes speed only slightly from a no load to a full load condition. In AC motors, these are synchronous motors. MORE