rapidities

Noun

rapidity (countable and uncountable, plural rapidities)

1. speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
   • Although appreciating the rapidity and frequency of the Southern electric services I was now to use on short journeys, I became more than ever convinced that electric traction offers very little of interest to the dyed-in-the-wool railwayist.1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340
2. (relativity) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light; defined as artanh(v), where artanh is the hyperbolic arctangent, and v = speed (with c = speed of light = 1).
3. A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis