slowness - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From slow +‎ -ness.

slowness (usually uncountable, plural slownesses)

1. The quality or state of being slow.

   • 2003 April 30, Hazel Muir, “Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism”, in New Scientist, retrieved 15 Nov. 2012:

     Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.

2. (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “slowness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “slowness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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