Rapid means happening with great speed or in a brief period of time. Think of Rapid Eye Movement (REM sleep), when your eyes are darting back and forth quickly trying to follow your fast paced dreams.
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast;
Noun
a part of a river where the current is very fast
Adjective S.
done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks"
Adjective S.
characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movment"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy"
a.
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid
stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
a.
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in
quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence;
rapid succession.
a.
Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
a.
The part of a river where the current moves with great
swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the
plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
Rapid
Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.2.
Rapid
Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast;
The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural;
Usage Examples
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
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