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rapid English

Meaning rapid meaning

What does rapid mean?
Definitions in simple English

rapid

If an action or idea is rapid, it happens quickly.

rapid

A fast part of a river or stream.

rapid

done or occurring in a brief period of time a rapid rise through the ranks (= speedy) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed a rapid movement a speedy car a speedy errand boy a part of a river where the current is very fast

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Simple sentences

There was a rapid decline in stock prices.
The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.
Computer science has made rapid progress in our country.
The rapid growth of the city surprised us.
The country is famous for the rapid growth of its economy.
Computers have made rapid progress.
The current of this river is rapid.
The growth in population is very rapid in developing countries.
He has made rapid progress in English.
Comparative studies are now making rapid progress.
We must prevent rapid population growth.
The rapid spin of the Earth along with the molten metallic core produces the Earth's magnetic field.
The rapid rotation of Uranus causes winds up to 600 kilometers per hour to blow in its atmosphere.
It must be dangerous to swim in this rapid stream.
My wishes for your father's rapid recovery.
Rapid and remarkable advances have been made in medicine.
They were surprised at the city's rapid growth.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
The deer is more rapid than strong.
The fight began with the rapid exchange of blows.
There has been a rapid increase in the population here.

Movie subtitles

I'm making rapid strides.
He is making rapid strides, Your Excellency.
Its purpose is to study how the lack of oxygen affects your ability to coordinate rapid movements.
Focal plane shutter, rapid rectilinear and all that. Look here.
Rapid pulse. Respiration difficult and uneven.
It's a bit rapid.
Not only is he rapid. But he must have been born under an unlucky star to be just a cart driver.
I like men who make rapid decisions.
And then at the Sheraton-Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Hotel Sheraton-Johnson, Rapid City, South Dakota.
Rapid City.
Rapid City, South Dakota.
Rapid City?
How's everything out in Rapid City?
Rapid fire, men!
Cannon rapid fire.
Nice little camera. Focal plane shutter, rapid rectilinear and all that.
Kaplan, who was removed to the Rapid City Hospital in critical condition has been tentatively identified as an employee of the federal government.
In fairly rapid order.
Yes, because the Mexicans didn't have rapid-fire weapons.
AT WHICH POINT I SHALL SEE TO IT THAT YOU ARE GIVEN A RAPID AND UNCOMPLICATED, UH, DEPARTURE.
He's a music rapid for you were no Mr. Hofbauer Fine piece of appreciation.
Rapid.
Not only is he rapid.
In two days, you are due at the Ambassador East in Chicago. And then at the Sheraton-Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Now his pupils are returning to normal. his pulse is less rapid, his color's returning.
Who, gentlemen of the jury, in this rapid summary of the facts, could even vaguely imagine the horror caused by the spectacle of the two lovers lying there, disgustingly entwined in the vile enactment of their sin.
Atropine causes dilation of the blood vessels, temperature rises and pulse rate becomes very rapid.
The older the victim, the more rapid the progress of the disease.

News and current affairs

Most economists failed to foresee the economic dynamics that actually led to the crisis, because they failed to pay enough attention to the rapid increase in US total debt.
Because rapid fiscal deterioration now has investors worrying about capital losses on US government securities, devaluation would make foreigners more hesitant to finance America's budget deficit.
Its growth was fueled by an extraordinarily rapid structural transformation towards an increasingly sophisticated set of industrial goods.
To this old brew, new ingredients have been added, notably the most rapid change in a nation's fiscal posture the world has probably ever seen.
Europe's response to this process must embody the goal of an orderly and rapid transition.
But Obama will have to define a clearer US policy, addressing China's rapid rise under an authoritarian regime that aggressively pursues border claims and whips up nationalism at home.
The financial crash introduced hard budget constraints on Russian enterprises; they realized they had to make money, prompting rapid monetization.
In each country, rapid reform was seen as detrimental to national interests.
Under the existing regime, the country had been on a rapid downward spiral of the kind that has now become familiar in Greece and elsewhere in Europe.
Eventually, China's rapid growth will have to be reflected in a significant rise in its currency, its domestic price level, or in both.
Globalization proceeded at a rapid pace through much of the last century, and at a particularly accelerated rate during its last two decades.
Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
These countries' massive combined bank and government debt - the distinction everywhere in Europe has become blurred - makes rapid sustained growth a dream.
Second, there are no signs that the US government either understands or has the will to stimulate the American economy sufficiently to produce rapid economic growth.
Today's explosion of conspiracy theories has been stoked by the same conditions that drove their acceptance in the past: rapid social change and profound economic uncertainty.
The second narrative starts with the 1950's and 1960's, an era of rapid growth in the West and Japan.
But the Taliban's rapid rise in the 1990's was inextricably linked to the failure of irrigation systems.
However, many of these plants are unable to keep up with rapid population growth and attendant increases in demand.
Rapid expansion of agricultural activity is requiring more and more water all across the continent.
Moreover, the use of wood by Africa's growing population is causing increasingly rapid deforestation in many countries.
That downshift, in the face of sustained rapid job creation, implies an unmistakable deceleration of productivity.
Yet, for advanced economies, periods of sustained rapid productivity growth have been the exception, not the rule.
The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.
The main weakness of Latin America's economies is that they will be unable to generate the type of rapid and sustained growth required to create jobs and reduce inequality and poverty.
Generating the rapid long-term economic growth that Latin American countries need requires that they fulfill three conditions.
Finally, they need to attain a rapid rate of productivity growth, which can be achieved only by ensuring a high-quality, broadly accessible educational system.

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