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Celerion is derived from the Latin celeritas meaning swiftness and speed.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Indc quidcm augetur fanguinis celeritas, fed iimul augetur ejufdcm rarefadtio* Com - pertum autem eft, attritum efle in rationt celeritatis, foliditatis, et comprcflionis.
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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Unde enim illa Radiorum Sola - rium celeritas? nempc exigua fnnt Corpora
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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Reading his new publication, a volume containing two novels, After and Making Mistakes, I’ve come to the conclusion that whereas most great literature calls on gravitas to give it authority, the weighty burden of hefty concerns, strenuously raised, Josipovici fuels his narratives with celeritas, the playful swiftness of sleight of hand.
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«em fupereffe celeritatem, qua» eft in minima arteriola rubra: fit ea celeritas ejufmodi, ut vigecuplo ientius, quam per cor fanguis per ejufmodi arteriolam
oroboros commented on the word celeritas
The origin of the "c" in E = m c2. Latin for swiftness or speed as applicable to the speed of light.
September 17, 2008