average speed
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaverageandspeed
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average
adjective
uk/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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speed
noun
uk/spiːd/us/spiːd/
how fast ...
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Theaveragespeedwas c. 1-1.5 km h-1.
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Note that case 4 has the lowestaveragespeedas compared to the other 3 cases.
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The total length of the path is 8m, thus theaveragespeedis about 1.6knot.
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Using the modified system, we observed anaveragespeed-up of 14% over the base system.
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The corresponding automaton has more than 35,000 states and theaveragespeedis 1400 words tagged per second.
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Again peripheral dots moved faster than more central dots but anaveragespeedof 3.580s was achieved.
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That requires anaveragespeedof 4.7 knots, or 8.7 km/hr, which seems reasonable given the circumstances.
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The result presented next indicates that theaveragespeedof climbing is improved in uninformed climbing on average.
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Theaveragespeedis about 8 kph.
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That will only mean anaveragespeed.
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That is notaveragespeed; it is actual speed.
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What is theaveragespeedof a destroyer?
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Averagespeedwas 2.77 ^ 0.10 m s21 over 80 km, and 2.92, 3.00, 2.60 and 2.14 m s21 for the four loops.
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However, the absence of condition on the impact velocity leads to a high value which is much greater than theaveragespeedof the gait.
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Theaveragespeedis limited by the available onboard computing power, which sets limits on the processing speed of the navigation system.
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In addition, the gaits are also described by some descriptors such as the step length, period,averagespeedand energy inefficiency.
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Averaged over the 16 participants, and without taking correction times into account, abbreviation yields anaveragespeed-up of 12.24% (standard deviation = 4.97%).
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With the results of fixed points, we investigated the effects of parameter variations on the gait descriptors, including step length, period,averagespeedand energy inefficiency.
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Males appeared to be more sensitive to mucus patches, demonstrating a significant reduction inaveragespeedwhile the reduction observed in females was non-significant (fig. 8).
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Our analysis will also lead to conjectures on theaveragespeedof these fronts and on the existence of modulated fronts that connect different stable patterns.
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Theaveragespeedwill usually be less than theaveragespeedof the alternating stroke.
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That is no different from theaveragespeedof vehicles 100 years ago.
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He has given theaveragespeedof a steamer and not of a destroyer.
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That is partly possible through the increase of theaveragespeed.
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They show that theaveragespeedof answer from the exchange is six seconds.
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