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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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Spanish war loan into registered bonds continues to go forward rapidly.

Women are a rapidly growing violent demographic in our society, and have been for more than a decade.

The way diseases of the psyche are diagnosed is changing rapidly.

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Spanish war loan into registered bonds continues to go forward rapidly.

Women are a rapidly growing violent demographic in our society, and have been for more than a decade.

The way diseases of the psyche are diagnosed is changing rapidly.

We have a hardworking research staff that keeps careful track of a rapidly changing world in many ways.

Conservation of angular momentum explains why an ice skater spins more rapidly as she pulls her arms in.

It was a rare victory in a rapidly escalating fight to save the rhinoceros.

Flat basal rosette spreads rapidly by underground runners.

The largest helium sources in the world are rapidly reaching capacity.

It faces a rapidly changing mix of students that derives from our rapidly changing demographics.

And companies wanting to invest abroad will favour markets that are expanding more rapidly.

Global fish populations are rapidly being depleted due to demand, loss of habitat, and unsustainable fishing practices.

On election night last year, testosterone levels dropped rapidly among male voters of losing parties.

The young cub has a long gray-blue coat and a black underbelly that rapidly lightens and becomes spotted.

Plants spread rapidly by underground runners and by seed.

No, it didn't give us the same decompression sickness found among deep sea divers who rapidly ascend to the surface.

The creation of new knowledge and new technologies continues to accelerate rapidly.

The bad news is that this looks likely to slow because working-age populations will decline more rapidly than overall populations.

Most of the snails were then released in the wild, where they rapidly grew in number.

These cells divide rapidly at the bottom of epidermis, pushing the higher cells upward.

One is the rapidly growing, completely counterintuitive practice of bringing animals into hospitals and nursing homes.

May look a bit shabby in winter but revives rapidly in spring add to my plant list.

America's rapidly expanding cyborg-animal army could soon add a new crawler to its ranks.

The number of private colleges in the country has grown rapidly in recent.

First, they require the existence of forced sellers, to have driven prices down rapidly.

What's more, the refugees' ranks are growing rapidly.

For others, however, being out-of-sync disrupts the heart¿s coordinated pumping and leads rapidly to death.

When manufactured, raw polystyrene is heated, rolled out into thin sheets and then rapidly cooled so that it can retain its shape.

They grow about as tall as clumping types but spread rapidly by long, trailing stems.

The rapid ecological changes which resulted rapidly winnowed down the diversity of life on earth.

Humanity is forgetting its history more rapidly each year.

And farming these crustaceans has rapidly become big business.

The rapidly spreading disease affects more people than ever before.

But genetic changes in a population can occur much more rapidly.

The desert habitat in which the onagers thrive is disappearing rapidly due to human settlement and overgrazing.

The more rapidly and actively a plant is growing, the more nitrogen it needs.

If that were to occur, autonomous communities little affected by the shock, would help to rapidly reboot the larger system.

Our accounting program is growing rapidly while simultaneously escalating in quality.

Those challenges, however, are now mounting rapidly.

Air here moves rapidly toward the center and then suddenly upward, as if it had hit a wall.

It adapts well to movement and so can be towed much more rapidly than corral systems already in use.

It is hard to capture anything when moving so rapidly espcially when things happen only a split second and cannot be repeated.

Pyrethrin kills many soft-bodied and some hard-bodied insects, has a low level of toxicity, and dissipates rapidly.

After many iterations, the robots had evolved effective movement patterns and were able to slither rapidly towards the goal.

One service, however, is rapidly shifting to the cloud: student e-mail.

After three years of breakneck growth, the economy is rapidly slowing down.

Cities throughout the world are growing rapidly, but none so rapidly as those in developing regions.

The problem is therefore one of rapidly rising demand.

The virus spread rapidly from village to village, killing half of its victims.

Ryan makes a furrow and rapidly pokes the seeds down one at a time with his finger.

In today's rapidly changing environment, however, the federal.

The official media, often reticent about reporting bad news, rapidly updated casualty numbers.

The ancient predator would ambush prey many times its own size and weight and rapidly dispatch the victim with devastating jaws.

Venus' high velocity winds and rapidly moving polar vortex may be effects produced by this externally generated magnetic field.

Rising temperatures are rapidly reducing the ice that permanently caps high mountains around the world.

Revaluation by stealth:China is allowing its currency to rise more rapidly.

The number of electronic tools for treating mental health troubles is rapidly increasing.

Tigers are an endangered species, rapidly being poached out of existence.

Addicts should not be deprived of their drugs too rapidly.

Even one such event is statistically unlikely outside of rapidly reproducing bacterial colonies.

The early euphoria could rapidly fizzle into surly disappointment.

New research shows that the flow's volume is rapidly increasing.

No one would deny that the modes of communication are changing rapidly, perhaps as rapidly as in.

Tornadoes may form during the early stages of rapidly developing thunderstorms.

Proposed effect, to slow the fall of a rapidly vibrating molecule, faces skepticism.

The second-growth forest that squirrel monkeys prefer for the plentiful soft fruits and insects is rapidly disappearing.

India's, though large and rapidly rising, are well below two tonnes a head.

More energy-efficient light-emitting diodes are rapidly becoming the preferred lighting solution worldwide.

Everybody figures out rapidly which apps are really the coolest.

Today's complex and rapidly changing world makes it critical that.

They also want people who can be effective quite rapidly.

The rapidly disappearing daylight seems almost to drag away part.

Development followed, and the pace of change rapidly picked up.

They are more vulnerable than ever as the parking lot and surrounding grounds flood rapidly when the rains come down.

The propensity to pounce ruthlessly on a politically wounded colleague is rapidly becoming a favorite spectator sport in academe.

Both monkeys moved their eyes as accurately and rapidly in response to the imagined flashes as they had done to the real ones.

Plus, there's the globalization that allows bee-killing disorders to spread rapidly and easily.

Finding cancers' stem cells is a rapidly growing area of.

From that crisis, a new career path is rapidly developing, and it is already having an impact.

Skype, the internet phone service, is growing rapidly.

But some researchers maintain that the planet cooled rapidly after.

And even then it took precious hours to fix a position of the rapidly changing object.

Rapidly placing and canceling orders for stock shares in order to game the market.

In recent years our international student population has doubled in size, growing much more rapidly than the national average.

The drugs attack every rapidly dividing cell in the body.

Supercell storms are notable for the rapidly rotating winds known collectively as a mesocyclone.

The regions where planets are being created are incredibly chemically productive, rapidly generating new compounds.

The state of dinosaur science is changing so rapidly that even exhibits.

Mohr's death was caused by a fungal infection that spread through rapidly through her body.

Indeed, student interest in the programs has been strong, with enrollments rising rapidly across the country.

The species that are being lost rapidly are the large vertebrates that conservationists were worried about in the first place.

Inserting the electrodes closed this gate and rapidly alleviated the depression of two thirds of the trial's patients.

Trying to understand nanometers can rapidly induce crossed eyes.

Companies in the rich world are confronted with a rapidly ageing workforce.

Absorption refers to the ability of the chemical to enter the body rapidly.

The killing of human beings by wolves, cougars, bears and pigs is rapidly increasing.

The simple single-celled organisms that dominated life's first few billion years were rapidly becoming more.

If an invader is new, this process allows the immune system to learn to recognise it, and respond more rapidly next time.

In less than ten years it has rapidly reached commercial extinction due to overcollection for the international pet trade.

But you want those spaces to be rapidly colonized by the next generation of.

There's a fair amount of information to rapidly process in order to avoid collisions and other accidents.

When air is pumped rapidly out of small holes in a ship.

Now, new studies are hinting at the added benefits that the once-spurned carnivore have rapidly brought to the preserve.

This, it would seem, would occur much more rapidly than the subsequent cooling.

The finding highlights the importance of the rapidly dwindling habitats to reef communities.

However, there are already many examples where such traits change rapidly in tight-knit communities.

It also ensures these goods and services recover relatively rapidly after an accident or natural disturbance.

The aquarium fish industry is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year worldwide and is growing rapidly.

In preparation for flight, these aerial acrobats expose their wings to direct sunlight, which rapidly warms their flight muscles.

Likewise, some tents last for a long time whereas others fall to pieces rapidly.

The new research, which challenges previous studies, suggests these early settlers advanced rapidly as the glaciers melted away.

If temperature increases so rapidly with height that clouds cannot grow vertically, stratiform clouds occur.

Certainly a rapidly growing younger spider requires a diet that differs from an elder.

The first post-independence government moved rapidly to establish a free-market economy.

However urban life strikes you, cities worldwide have been growing ever more rapidly.

They next peck at the water and then rapidly open and close their beaks.

The dairy industry is rapidly consolidating as demand grows in the emerging world.

They also believe warming oceans are rapidly thinning the shelf from underneath.

If for any reason therapy is interrupted, the virus rapidly rebounds.

Possible bidders found themselves appraising a rapidly shrinking firm.

It is dynamic, audiovisual, and has rapidly changing language and emotional aspects.

Given our rapidly increasing control of our own genetics it will either lead to a vastly more intelligent.

Studies cited in his article show that inequality has been rising, and rapidly.

When food is within reach, a fish will rapidly open its mouth.

And rapidly changing the position of the tentacles could even function as a kind of brake.

In addition to awe and envy, its rise has spawned a rapidly growing list of trade quarrels.

The native forests are rapidly being cleared and converted to urban landscapes.

The more tumor cells there are-and the more rapidly they're dividing and proliferating-the more antibodies are needed.

As you read this, your eyes are rapidly flicking from left to right in small hops, bringing each word sequentially into focus.

Between the ages of one and two, toddlers typically rapidly expand their vocabularies.

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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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