normal speed

collocation in English

meaningsofnormalandspeed

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normal
adjective
uk
/ˈnɔː.məl/us
/ˈnɔːr.məl/
ordinary or usual; the same as would ...
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speed
noun
uk
/spiːd/us
/spiːd/
how fast ...
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(Definition ofnormalandspeedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Once the inhibitory process is initiated or triggered however, it proceeds at anormalspeed.
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A female experimenter gave the verbal instructions live, pronouncing them with anormalspeed.
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Atnormalspeedthe grains will move through the sound file at the speed it was originally recorded.
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We shall return tomorrow tonormalspeed.
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What is thenormalspeedof cars on that road?
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The rest of his speech was given at a perfectlynormalspeed.
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They travel at thenormalspeedfor lifts serving only a few floors.
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Thenormalspeedrange for raising the leading edge wing droop is 225–250 knots.
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Thenormalspeedrange for raising the leading edge wing droop is 225 to 250 knots.
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The explosion then explodes atnormalspeed.
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As has been said, thenormalspeedof that is 500 kilobits per second, but it can go faster.
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It is fair to say in this country that our averagenormalspeedchallenges comparison with any other country.
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It does not involve any stopping of cable transmissions or any interference with thenormalspeedof their onward transmission.
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Twenty-five years ago thenormalspeedwould have been 150 miles an hour at a height of 10,000 feet.
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It was just going along at anormalspeed.
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Eventually the student would learn the solo atnormalspeed.
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In a third factory a conveyor belt was working at one-third of thenormalspeedbecause otherwise it would run out of component parts.
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The quadruplex systems were unable to display video from tape except while playing atnormalspeed.
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When holding the button, the character's moves at 40% ofnormalspeed.
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Normalspeedwas 13 knots, and one boiler was sufficient for this.
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Initially, it was common to slow down to some low fraction (e.g. 5%) ofnormalspeed.
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During these surges, the glacier may reach velocities far greater thannormalspeed.
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When viewed atnormalspeed, the frames flash by rapidly, much like blipverts.
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Together, they can type on a computer keyboard at anormalspeedand drive a car.
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When replayed atnormalspeed, time appears to be moving more slowly.
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