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Sickness vs Velocity - What's the difference?

sickness | velocity |

As nouns the difference between sickness and velocity

is that sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady while velocity is (physics) a vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.

sickness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king. -
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
    Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

    References

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    velocity

    English

    Noun

  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * angular velocity * phase velocity * escape velocity