velocity

English

Etymology

From Middle French vélocité, from Latin vēlōcitās (“speed”), from vēlōx (“fast”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɒsəti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vəˈlɑsəti/

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Noun

velocity (countable and uncountable, plural velocities)

1. (physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, or a speed with the directional component.
2. Rapidity of motion.
3. The rate of occurrence.
4. (economics) The number of times that an average unit of currency is spent during a specific period of time.

Synonyms

• speed

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of velocity

• angular velocity
• escape velocity

• hypervelocity
• phase velocity

• supervelocity

• ultravelocity

Translations

vector quantity

• Afrikaans: snelheid
• Albanian: shpejtësia f
• Aragonese: velocidat f
• Armenian: արագություն (hy) (aragutʿyun)
• Basque: lastertasun, abiadur
• Belarusian: ско́расць f (skórascʹ)
• Bengali: গতিবেগ (gôtibeg)
• Bulgarian: скорост (bg) f (skorost)
• Burmese: အလျင် (my) (a.lyang)
• Catalan: velocitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 速度 (zh) (sùdù)

• Czech: rychlost (cs) f
• Danish: hastighed (da) c
• Dutch: snelheid (nl) f
• Estonian: kiirus
• Finnish: nopeus (fi)
• French: vecteur vitesse (fr) f, vélocité (fr) (anglicism)
• Galician: velocidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სიჩქარე (sičkare)
• German: Geschwindigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ταχύτητα (el) f (tachýtita), ταχύτητα (el) f (tachýtita)
• Hebrew: מהירות‎‎ (he)
• Hindi: वेग (hi) m (veg)
• Hungarian: sebesség (hu)
• Icelandic: hraði (is) m
• Indonesian: kecepatan (id), velositas (id)
• Irish: treoluas
• Italian: velocità (it) f
• Japanese: 速度 (ja) (そくど, sokudo)
• Javanese: kacepetan, ꦏꦕꦼꦥꦼꦠꦤ꧀ (kacepetan)
• Kazakh: жылдамдық (kk) (jıldamdıq)
• Khmer: ល្បឿន (km) (lbɨən)
• Korean: 속도 (ko) (sokdo) (速度 (ko))
• Latin: velocitas f

• Latvian: ātrums m
• Malay: halaju
• Malayalam: പ്രവേഗം (pravēgaṃ)
• Maltese: veloċità f
• Manx: bieauid
• Marathi: वेग m (veg)
• Nepali: गति (ne) (gati)
• North Frisian: faard
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hastighet (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: hastigheit m, f

• Occitan: velocitat (oc) f
• Polish: prędkość (pl) f
• Portuguese: velocidade (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਵੇਗ (veg)
• Romanian: viteză (ro) f
• Russian: ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: brzina (sh) f
• Slovak: rýchlosť (sk) f
• Slovene: hitrost (sl) f
• Spanish: velocidad (es) f
• Sundanese: ᮜᮏᮥ (laju)
• Swedish: hastighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: tulin (tl), hagibis, belosidad
• Tajik: суръат (tg) (surʾat)
• Tamil: திசைவேகம் (ta) c (ticaivēkam)
• Tatar: тизлек (tt) (tizlek)
• Thai: ความเร็ว (th) (kwaam-reo)
• Turkish: hız (tr)
• Ukrainian: швидкість f (švydkistʹ)
• Uzbek: tezlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: vận tốc (vi)
• Welsh: cyflymder
• West Frisian: snelheid

rapidity of motion

• Armenian: արագություն (hy) (aragutʿyun)
• Basque: lastertasun
• Belarusian: ско́расць f (skórascʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: rychlost (cs) f
• Dutch: snelheid (nl)
• Finnish: vauhti (fi), nopeus (fi)
• French: vitesse (fr) f
• Galician: velocidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სისწრაფე (sisc̣rape)
• German: Geschwindigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ταχύτητα (el) f (tachýtita)
• Italian: velocità (it) f

• Japanese: 速さ (はやさ, hayasa), 速度 (ja) (そくど, sokudo)
• Latin: celeritās f, vēlōcitās f
• Latvian: ātrums m
• Maltese: veloċità f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hastighet (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: hastigheit f

• Portuguese: velocidade (pt) f
• Russian: ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ), быстрота́ (ru) f (bystrotá)
• Spanish: velocidad (es) f
• Swedish: fart (sv) c
• Tagalog: tulin (tl)
• Vietnamese: tốc độ (vi)

the rate of occurrence

• Armenian: հաճախություն (hy) (hačaxutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: vauhti (fi)
• Georgian: სიჩქარე (sičkare)

• Greek: ταχύτητα (el) f (tachýtita)
• Italian: velocità (it) f
• Romanian: velocitate (ro) f
• Russian: ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ), быстрота́ (ru) f (bystrotá)
• Swedish: hastighet (sv) c

economics

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արագություն (hy) (aragutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 周轉率 (zh), 周转率 (zh) (zhōuzhuǎnlǜ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kiertonopeus (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can

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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: velocidade (pt) f
• Russian: ско́рость (ru) f (skórostʹ) (обращения денег)
• Spanish: velocidad (es) f
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} velocitat (ca) f
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} snelheid (nl) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Geschwindigkeit (de) f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kecepatan (id)

• Korean: 속도 [速度] (sokdo)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} viteză (ro) f
• Swedish: hastighet c
• Telugu: వేగము (vaegamu)