velocity

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Developer velocity refers to the speed and efficiency with which software teams make high-quality code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“We are trying to heal that velocity that we had in the past year. If you go so fast, you’re going to crash,” Paco Amoroso told Billboard in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

In that scenario, a spacecraft would strike the object and slightly alter its velocity.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

That’s been the order since tracking of the race began, with no candidate—whether they’re spending $60 million or not—able to achieve any sort of escape velocity.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

In order to predict the future position and velocity of a particle, one has to be able to measure its present position and velocity accurately.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking