The five-inch rapid-fire gun has the greatest muzzle velocity at 2,250 feet.
At its muzzlevelocity the thirteen-inch shell will penetrate 26.
The wind has at times a velocity of over 35 feet per second; it is howling in the rigging, whistling over the ice, and the snow is drifting so badly that a man might be lost in it quite near at hand.
The wind that began yesterday has gone on blowing all to-day with a velocity of 16 to 19 feet per second, from S.
We have had tremendously strong wind from the northwest and north for some days, with a velocity at times of 39 and 42 feet.
Wind began to blow from the south to-day, and has reached a velocityof 13 feet per second.
A south wind of less velocity generally lowers the temperature, and a moderate north wind raises it.
Same wind to-day; velocity up to 39 feet and higher, but Hansen has taken an observation this evening in spite of it.
Splendid wind, with velocity of 13 to 19 feet per second; we are going north at a grand rate.
C), but when there is added to this a biting wind, with a velocity of from 9 to 16 feet per second, it must be allowed that it is rather 'cool in the shade.
The velocity of the wind was over 40 feet this morning, and it is long since I have heard it blow as it is doing this evening.
But if it be set at liberty it will immediately begin to oscillate between London and Edinburgh, retaining, it is asserted, the velocity of the former place.
The cloud which bore me descended to within a hundred yards of the earth, and then was hurried along by the wind with suchvelocity and noise, that I perceived we were assisting at a hurricane.
It was necessary that the vortices should be adjusted in such a manner as to account for Kepler's laws; and this was to be done by making the velocity of each stratum of the vortex depend in a suitable manner on its radius.
It cannot be that the same power, acting in the same way, shall produce the same velocity by pushing a small pebble and a large rock.
Now what determines the velocity thus produced in a given time, or its rate of increase?
Weight is measured by the reaction which would balance it; but when unbalanced, it produces motion, and the velocity of this motion increases constantly.
Thus when Galileo discovered the true law of the motion of a falling body[156], that the velocity increases proportionally to the time from the beginning of the fall, he did not insist upon immediately assigning the cause of this law.
That inertia is proportional to weight, is a law equivalent to that law which asserts, that when pressure produces motion in a given body, the velocity produced in a given time is as the pressure.
In like manner, it was at first taken by Galileo as a mere fact of experience, that in a falling body, the velocity increases in proportion to the time; but his followers have seen in this the necessary effect of the uniform force of gravity.
If we consider Force producing motion, the motion produced, that is, the velocity produced, must depend upon the quantity of matter moved.
Thus it appears that the assertion, that inertia is universally proportional to weight, is equivalent to the law of motion, that the velocity is as the pressure.
It must needs be that the same force produces a smaller velocity in the larger body; and this according to some measure of its largeness.
For the inertia is understood to be that property of bodies to which, ceteris paribus, the velocity impressed is inversely proportional.
In an elliptical orbit the velocityalternately increases and diminishes.
From the perpendicular pitch to these islands, a distance of more than one hundred yards, the water glides down a sloping rock with a velocity almost equal to that of its fall.
These two, as well as Gallatin river, run with great velocity and throw out large bodies of water.
Just above this is a cascade of about five feet, beyond which, as far as could be discerned, the velocity of the water seemed to abate.
And as it grew darker the wind's velocity steadily increased.
But any wind at once affects its velocity over the surface, which will be the composition of the speed of the plane through the air with the speed of the air over the surface.
They appeared to be moving with the velocity of a railroad train.
We now know the distance, and we easily get the velocity of light.
The speed of the wheel was known, and it was thus possible again to gather the velocity of light.
The velocity of one stream relative to the other is about twenty-five miles per second.
These particles were being hurled out of the atoms of radium, or from the negative pole in a vacuum tube, at a speed which, in good conditions, reached nearly the velocity of light, i.
The physicist brings his refined methods to bear on these things, and he measures the energy and velocity of these infinitely minute molecules.
Suddenly, with a yell that made the old forest ring, and a bound, he darted round the couch with a velocity truly astonishing.
Then I began to sink, first slowly, but gradually increasing in velocity until I seemed to go swifter than the wind, and at every moment expected to be dashed to pieces.
Borne with velocity along, we soon landed at the grand terrace-steps of the quay.
The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with ignitingvelocity the line ran through the groove; --ran foul.
Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows his place to the distance of seven miles and more.
The greatest probable error in the velocity measurements would not exceed 1/2 per cent.
Bonito Creek and Nogal Reservoir, as determined by velocity and volumetric measurements hereafter described.
They have given some checks on the position of this grade during the velocity measurements hereinafter described.
The pipe line from Bonito Creek to the Nogal Reservoir affords excellent conditions for velocity and capacity measurements, there being no distribution service from it.
The application of the equation for equalized relative velocities, as in the first test, gives: Velocity in 16-in.
Was the first appearance, or the average time of appearance, accepted for computing the velocity of flow?
If a bullet fired from a Maxim gun at the sun kept its muzzle velocity unimpaired, it would take seven years to reach the sun.
It is spinning round on its axis, but since it is an incandescent fluid, its polar regions do not travel with the same velocity as its equator, the surface of which rotates in about twenty-five days.
Atkinson,[445] 'What astonished the Allies most of all was the number and the velocity of the Republicans.
Are we really poor beasts in the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas, for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict?
Fortunately the boy contrived to jump from his rolling prison before it reached the chalk-pit; but the wheel went on with such velocity as to outstrip its pursuers, and, rolling over the edge of the precipice, it was dashed to pieces.
It is obviously liable to mistakes, from the number of changes requisite for each word, and from the velocity with which it must be moved to convey intelligence with any tolerable expedition.
The maximum velocity attained during the trial trip was twenty-nine miles an hour, or about three times the speed that one of the judges of the competition had declared to be the limit of possibility.
The vehicle became quite ungovernable; the velocity increased as it ran down hill.
Then a beam would go scampering away as if it had the concentrated velocity of a hundred 12-inch shots.
Taking the breadth and the average velocity we arrive at the discharge, which in the two arms of the Dok-chu amounted to 1165 cubic feet per second.
But then thevelocity of the boat increased, amounting on an average to 4 feet a second.
Sometimes the river contracts and deepens, and the bottom ceases to be visible, sometimes it spreads out and the velocity decreases.
The velocity was measured on the surface, half-way down, and at the bottom, with Lyth's current meter.
Accordingly, he was sent back to prison, where, together with Greenwood, he awaited trial until March, 1593.
Another result was that the Bible was studied more earnestly in private, and that there was a public eager to read the religious books and pamphlets published abroad and cautiously circulated in England.
To those of us who know the frightful velocitythat is attained in a few feet on steep snow, and the long years of practice necessary to control this speed, such an act would appear quite inexplicable.
An agonized shout from Petty caused Mr. Robinson to turn sharply, and he saw his companion shooting head downwards with terrific velocity to the screes below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "velocity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
