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rapid

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1. rapid - Noun

2. rapid - Adjective

3. rapid - Adverb

4. rapid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most. Leó Szilárd

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. John Desmond Bernal

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty

acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. Daniel Kahneman

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid. Albert Pike

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