average velocity

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandvelocity

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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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velocity
noun[C or U]
uk
/vəˈlɒs.ə.ti/
us
/vəˈlɑː.sə.t̬i/
the speed at which an object ...
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(Definition ofaverageandvelocityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition to their orbital motions, particles may also have anaveragevelocity.
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Theaveragevelocityof this group is slightly above 3 10 6 m0s.
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We attribute this discrepancy to the method of evaluating theaveragevelocityemployed.
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Theaveragevelocityis resolved to better than + 0.1 km/s.
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Therefore, the average density and theaveragevelocityare close to their equilibrium values.
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First, theaveragevelocityof laser-driven flyers is estimated.
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The fact that size and distance judgments in the constant velocity condition were significantly better than chance shows that observers can, in fact, make use of theaveragevelocitycue.
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Data were then displayed with an interactive visual software to remove remaining small saccadic eye movements and extract bothaveragevelocityprofiles, latencies, and amplitude measurements.
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It is also necessary to establish the relation between the theoreticalaveragevelocitygradient in the suspension and observable velocities.
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This database has been used to derive depth to particular velocities and theaveragevelocityof the crust which have been used to produce a series of contour maps.
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First, anaveragevelocityof laser-driven tantalum flyers with a thickness of 4 and 8 mm is estimated.
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Local deviations from theaveragevelocityand pressure are significant, and are accounted for, implicitly, in the macroscopic concept of permeability.
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This was a distance of 49 11 mm, at anaveragevelocityof 6.2 1.1 mm/min.
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The maximum speed exceeds 25 km s 1 at the beginning of the discharge and theaveragevelocityexceeds 10 km s 1 during the first-half-cycle of the current.
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Theaveragevelocityof the glass fragments was 295 ft./sec in the 18 g air-sphere explosions, and 215ft./sec in the 16g helium-sphere explosions.
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The correlation is mostly negative, indicating that the streamwise velocity in the turbulent bursts is generally less than the localaveragevelocity.
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