In naval architecture, designing for velocity is giving that form to a ship's body by which she will pass through the water in the quickest space of time.
·noun Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the veloc...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
This is a term used in the orbits of double stars, and implies the motion in a certain time of one s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The velocity of a projectile at the moment of discharge from a gun. ...
May be freely assumed at nearly 1142 feet in a second of time, when not affected by the temperature ...
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...