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Definition of Speed

Speed
Speed Speed (sp[=e]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sped (sp[e^]d), Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding.] [AS. sp[=e]dan, fr. sp[=e]d, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n.] 1. To go; to fare. [Obs.] To warn him now he is too farre sped. --Remedy of Love. 2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. --Shak. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. --Waller. 3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! --Lydgate. I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand. --Milton. 4. To make haste; to move with celerity. I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. --Shak. 5. To be expedient. [Obs.] --Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)

Meaning of Speed from wikipedia

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- nickname Speed, former name of Speedway, California Speed, Indiana Speed, Kansas Speed, Missouri Speed, North Carolina Speed, West Virginia Speed, Victoria...
- The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is defined as 299792458 metres...
- Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (****anese: マッハGoGoGo, Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō), is a ****anese media franchise about automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo...
- speed limits are used in most countries to set the legal maximum or minimum speed at which road vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road. Speed...
- Speed reading is any of several techniques used to improve one's ability to read quickly. Speed reading methods include chunking and minimizing subvocalization...
- systems, the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits...
- Need for Speed (NFS) is a racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts and currently developed by Criterion Games, the developers of Burnout...
- In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when...
- A speed record is a world record for speed by a person, animal, or vehicle. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects...
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