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adjective

occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.

moving or acting with great speed; swift: a rapid worker.

characterized by speed: rapid motion.

noun

Usually, rapids. a part of a river where the current runs very swiftly.

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Origin:
1625–35; < Latin rapidus tearing away, seizing, swift. See rape¹, -id⁴

Related forms

rap·id·ly, adverb

ul·tra·rap·id, adjective

ul·tra·rap·id·ly, adverb

Can be confused: fast, quick, quickly, rapid, swift (see synonym and usage notes at quick).

Synonyms
2. See quick.

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Electrical cardioversion, the use of electric shock to restore a rapid heartbeat back to normal.

Higher education, never a rapid adapter, struggled to figure out how best to make use of mobile devices and new capabilities.

The next step is to sort out what these genes do and which are responsible for large size and rapid growth.

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Electrical cardioversion, the use of electric shock to restore a rapid heartbeat back to normal.

Higher education, never a rapid adapter, struggled to figure out how best to make use of mobile devices and new capabilities.

The next step is to sort out what these genes do and which are responsible for large size and rapid growth.

The rapid physical evolution also sparked changes in the lizard's social and behavioral structure, he said.

Rapid change is coming even for animals once thought to be relatively immune, such as caribou.

The march toward gender-specific clothes was neither linear nor rapid.

Distinctive appearance, rapid growth, and easy culture are more add to my plant list.

Three-dimensional printing, at the heart of rapid prototyping, cannot yet create models that move.

Hyperventilation is rapid or deep breathing that can occur with anxiety or panic.

Higher education, never a rapid adapter, struggled to figure out.

They have already cut the poverty rate dramatically with their rapid growth.

Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the spread of agriculture all threaten this ecoregion.

First, the rapid wingbeats of many species create wind vibrations that people hear as buzzes.

The wealth that poured in led to a population spike and the small town's rapid growth.

May show partial defoliation after a cold snap, but recovery is rapid.

Intensive breeding for rapid growth is responsible for their ambulatory problems.

Very rapid breathing can cause the baby to feed ineffectively.

Rapid technological change can leave colleges grasping for the right legal policies.

The second critical detail is the deceptively rapid pace of technological change.

The best explanation for the rapid rise, he added, is delamination-the loss of dense rock at the base of the crust.

Always refrigerate leftovers promptly, uncovered to aid rapid cooling.

They say that superfluid neutrons in the star's core are causing the rapid cooling.

Distinctive appearance, rapid growth, and easy culture are three of their many strong points more add to my plant list.

Newspaper circulation is falling nationwide but newspaper websites are experiencing rapid growth, according to a study.

The award recognized the college for its rapid growth and high graduation and job-placement rates.

Yet the growth of emerging economies is unlikely to continue at the same rapid pace or without occasional downturns.

The pulsar's rapid rotation likely helped create the nebula's odd shape.

Patients with adenocarcinoma have a worse prognosis and usually more rapid deterioration.

Your previous pieces have examined the world in rapid flux.

Symptoms include rapid wilting of plants and death of young seedlings.

Data-mining technology will also continue to develop at a rapid pace.

Strong domestic demand is also reflected in further rapid growth in imports of goods and services.

But butterflies are not the only organisms capable of rapid evolution.

It is impossible to overlook the rapid growth that's taken place here in a generation.

With adequate warmth and moisture, growth is rapid and blooms abundant.

Often this can mean rapid progress toward your degree, but be careful.

Such rapid development makes pessimism seem almost perverse.

Eight million years notwithstanding, that would seem to be a sign of rapid change.

Rapid burial by rare sedimentary event is the likely scenario in which the skeleton was preserved.

First, economic growth is no longer rapid enough to bail companies out.

Services, economists believed, were not amenable to rapid productivity growth.

New roads and rapid deforestation are opening up habitats once too remote to explore.

And, by reducing the power of their lasers while the condensate was forming, they allowed rapid evaporative cooling.

There is no doubt that societies have been changed by rapid and traumatic changes in the gene pool.

There is the potential, so far unrealised, for rapid growth.

The denials came in rapid fire, and once the interrogation was well underway it was clear that none of us seemed to have done it.

But that focus on rapid growth appears to have come at a cost to its reputation.

Today's rapid prototyping, in other words, will shade into tomorrow's rapid manufacturing.

Due to rapid globalization, people buying and selling marine life-forms can travel almost anywhere in the world within a day.

They have since overseen a rapid rise in enrollment, mostly through online offerings aimed at adult students.

Fuel efficiency rules, ethanol mandates and other government programs depend on a rapid rise in new car sales.

Target effects will include instantaneous burst-combustion of insurgent clothing, a rapid death through violent.

Medical educators have worried for years that their curricula have not kept up with rapid changes in scientific knowledge.

The poisoning is relatively rapid and a millionth of a gram is sufficient to kill.

Tsunamis can cause rapid changes in water level and.

The case for spurring rapid and voluntary reductions in fertility rates in the poorest countries is overwhelming.

Distinctive appearance, rapid growth, and easy culture are three of their many strong points.

More importantly, it will spur rapid innovation in hybrid and alternative fuel systems.

Without a rapid and sustained increase in overall rates of economic growth, reducing poverty will remain a considerable challenge.

Pregnant women in particular require large amounts of folate to support rapid cell division in the embryo.

The result can be a rapid boost in food production and farm incomes, commonly called a green revolution.

New species are announced at such a rapid rate that it is difficult to keep track of them all, and.

Meanwhile, the pale lizard starts wooing, making rapid shuddering movements and starting little romantic chases.

But the rapid growth of the loosely regulated private higher-education sector raises as many questions as it provides solutions.

The reason for the rapid change in the predicted rise in sea levels is a rapid increase in the information available.

Rapid thawing brought on by global warming on the world's largest island has opened up new.

With the rapid integration of apps into routine health care, however, time seems be of the essence.

The rapid selection for lactose tolerance raises an interesting question.

The uncommonly warm spring has led to a rollercoaster of rapid growth and near death experiences.

Biologists have found a growing number of wild examples of rapid evolution, such as the increasing resistance of bacteria.

But anyone expecting the entire check-in process to become both rapid and painless is in for a disappointment.

Wilma has astonished meteorologists with its rapid intensification.

Beginning runners can likewise expect to see a rapid fat loss at first.

That's the one constant in a field undergoing rapid change, as dentistry goes.

The rapid expansion of the for-profit sector has also fueled the program's growth.

Other airlines pulled theirs in for rapid inspections.

But volcanism alone couldn't explain the rapid rate of extinction.

These discoveries made possible unprecedented rapid development of blood screening techniques and of new antiviral therapies.

China has experienced a rapid increase in private-sector employment and urban migration.

And rapid industrial development has reduced forests and other vegetation that once provided moisture to the region.

Rapid reaction suggests that protein might be abundantly present and the secretion by exocytosis might be important.

As soon as people were in position, the loss of control event repeated itself, but with a more rapid onset.

Rapid advances in technology, meanwhile, are also shaping the hiring scene.

Somewhere in the world, a large underdeveloped economy enjoys rapid catch-up growth.

The tiger's lifestyle helped facilitate that rapid migration.

But the study shows that dreamlike sleep develops before rapid eye movements.

It had suffered from rapid decompression syndrome, or the bends.

Hilliard was part of a team examining an obese patient whose low blood pressure and rapid heart rate suggested a pulmonary.

The moment of glacial runoff coincided with the rapid evolution of animal life.

The clutter you see here may be a more direct consequence of rapid expansion than it is of regulation.

The cause of the star's rapid contraction is a mystery.

The contentious genesis of the laser did almost nothing to slow the rapid pace of its development and commercialization.

Studies of the emerging field of nanotechnology suggest that rapid growth leads to internal differentiation.

Proton was meant to symbolise the country's rapid industrialisation and aspirations to first-world status.

But rapid growth and popularity with visitors can place stress on communities.

The rapid growth of international education, and the companies it has spawned, has brought new scrutiny to the industry.

Governments across the emerging world are tightening policy in the face of rapid inflation.

It also provides conservationists with new information they hope can help divert the birds' rapid flight to extinction.

China's rapid urbanisation and economic expansion helped them weather the recent recession in the rich world.

Many of the elements for rapid economic growth are in place.

More likely, they have been temporarily suspended during a period of unusually rapid growth.

Few had expected a rapid return to full employment, but even modest expectations for jobs growth have not been met.

But the recent surge has them worried, partly because of its speed and fears of an equally rapid reversal.

And they have come up with some tailor-made solutions to cope with rapid growth.

It promised to combine two highly complementary businesses in an industry undergoing rapid consolidation.

Each year the tariff offered to new installations falls slightly, to encourage rapid development.

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World English Dictionary

rapid (ˈræpɪd)

—*adj*
1.	(of an action or movement) performed or occurring during a short interval of time; quick: a rapid transformation
2.	characterized by high speed: rapid movement
3.	acting or moving quickly; fast: a rapid worker

[C17: from Latin rapidus tearing away, from rapere to seize; see rape¹]

'rapidly

—*adv*

rapidity

—n

'rapidness

—n

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Word Origin & History

rapid

1634, from L. rapidus "hasty, snatching," from rapere "hurry away, carry off, seize, plunder," from PIE base *rep- "to snatch" (cf. Gk. ereptomai "devour," harpazein "snatch away"). Rapids is 1765, from Fr. rapides, applied by Fr. voyagers to North American rivers. Rapid-transit first attested 1873;

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rapid eye movement is from 1916.

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