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ANGULAR VELOCITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does angular velocity mean?
• ANGULAR VELOCITY (noun)
The noun ANGULAR VELOCITY has 1 sense:
1. (physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body; usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute
Familiarity information: ANGULAR VELOCITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body; usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("angular velocity" is a kind of...):
speed; velocity (distance travelled per unit time)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Context examples
A unit of angular acceleration equivalent to the rate of change of angular velocity by one angular degree per second during one second period.
(Degree per Second Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
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