0 the quality of being fast or sudden:
the rapidity of changes in technology
They fell in love with astonishing rapidity.
the rapidity of economic growth in many of the developing countries
People came and went with increasing rapidity.
For chaotic systems, even states that are infinitesimally different in their initial specifications will, with some degree of rapidity, diverge in their future evolutions.
Its unwritten character gives it the sense of tradition although some such obligations have been recognised as emerging with great rapidity.
The rapidity with which social demarcations get consolidated aboard ship reveals the profound impact of class performatives on the life of the nation.
The rapidity with which drug selection appears indicates that the resistant alleles are pre-existing in the wild populations.
However, it does illustrate the rapidity of historical change in this field3and may help us to understand today's retirees.
