Celerity vs Velocity - What's the difference?
celerity | velocity |
(in literary usage) Speed.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick , chapter 48:
* 1937 , Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon , chapter 11:
(oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).
(physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.
Rapidity of motion.
The rate of occurrence.
(economics) The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.
As nouns the difference between celerity and velocity
is that celerity is in literary usage Speed while velocity is a vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.celerity
English
Noun
(-)- The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity , were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
“My parsnip wine is really extra good this year. Dr Jellyfield always takes a glass when he comes—which isn’t very often, I’m pleased to say, because my health is always remarkably good.”
“That will not prevent me from drinking to it,” said Peter, disposing of the parsnip wine with a celerity which might have been due to eagerness but, to Harriet, rather suggested a reluctance to let the draught linger on the palate.