rapid motion

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandmotion

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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motion
noun
uk
/ˈməʊ.ʃən/us
/ˈmoʊ.ʃən/
the act or process of moving, or a particular action ...
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(Definition ofrapidandmotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Evenrapidmotionmay not affect our sense of the identity of things.
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Steady pressure from breath produced no motion, but some voices could producerapidmotion.
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The thimble ensures that therapidmotionof the solvent does not transport any solid material to the still pot.
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Linear motors are commonly found in many roller-coasters where therapidmotionof the motorless railcar is controlled by the rail.
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Palubari is developing its infrastructure in arapidmotion.
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However, due to itsrapidmotion, the passage of the storm resulted in minimal effects on operations.
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There could, of course, be no hope of depictingrapidmotion.
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To produce shutter speeds fast enough to stoprapidmotion, they used a narrow slit that exposed different parts of the film at different times.
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These waves are very weak, such that only the strongest waves, caused by therapidmotionof dense stars or black-holes, have a chance of being detected.
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Pushing with hands or body is allowed when any player is inrapidmotionor in possession of ball, except in the case of a mark.
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Next he describes how fire is capable of breaking wood apart into its minuscule parts through therapidmotionof the particles of fire within the flames.
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Usually it must be fast enough to freezerapidmotion, unless a controlled degree of motion blur is desired, for example to give a sensation of movement.
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The rapid motions of the vortex centroids and their high velocities, accelerations and jerks are expected, and thus not discussed.
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The only downside to the gel design is that the gel preventsrapidmotionof the ions in the electrolyte, which reduces carrier mobility and thus surge current capability.
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Two studies address rapid motions at the interface by means of quantitative relaxation measurements.
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As the deity rotate in space, its rapid motions expanded with the primordial world it had first created.
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