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High-speed   /haɪ-spid/   Listen
High-speed

adjective
1.
Operating at high speed.  Synonym: high-velocity.  "A high-velocity shell"



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"High-speed" Quotes from Famous Books



... hitherto practically applied in steam navigation are the paddle-wheel and the screw. The experience of modern steam navigation points to the exclusive use and advantage of the screw propeller where great speed of shaft is obtainable, and the electric engine is pre-eminently a high-speed engine, consequently the screw appears to be most suitable to the requirements of electric boats. By simply fixing the propeller to the prolonged motor shaft, we complete the whole system, which, when correctly made, will do its duty in perfect order, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various

... employed 75 years after its inception by the American Charles B. Richards when, in 1861, he designed his first high-speed engine indicator (fig. 11). Introduced into England the following year, the Richards Indicator was an immediate success, and many thousands were sold over the next 20 or ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson



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