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  • Thumbnail for Speed bump
    Speed bumps (also called traffic thresholds, speed breakers or sleeping policemen) are a class of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection...
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    The Speed Graphic was a press camera produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York. Although the first Speed Graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production...
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  • Speed is a game for two players of the shedding family of card games, in which players try to get rid of all of their cards first. It is a form of competitive...
    10 KB (1,700 words) - 03:37, 16 May 2024
  • Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) roots. It is described...
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    as mountains. Speed flying and speed riding are very similar sports; speed flying is when the speed wing is foot-launched, while speed riding is a winter...
    24 KB (2,307 words) - 05:51, 30 May 2024
  • pursuits. Need for Speed is one of EA's oldest franchises not published under their EA Sports brand. The series' first title, The Need for Speed, was released...
    121 KB (9,534 words) - 19:02, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speed limits in the United States
    speed limits are set by each state or territory. States have also allowed counties and municipalities to enact typically lower limits. Highway speed limits...
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    Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating...
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    In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the...
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  • Thumbnail for Road speed limits in the United Kingdom
    Road speed limits in the United Kingdom are used to define the maximum legal speed (which may be variable) for vehicles using public roads in the UK....
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    handle speeds above 250 km/h (155 mph) or upgraded lines in excess of 200 km/h (125 mph) are widely considered to be high-speed. The first high-speed rail...
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    The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately...
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  • field which it produces. In the relativistic sense, the "speed of gravity" refers to the speed of a gravitational wave, which, as predicted by general...
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    Jason Watkins Jr. (born January 21, 2005), known online as IShowSpeed or simply Speed, is an American YouTuber and rapper. He is best known for his variety...
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  • It is the first installment released in the Need for Speed series, which has influenced other racing games. The premise of The Need for Speed involves...
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    The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. At 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of...
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    In celestial mechanics, escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from contact with or orbit of a primary body...
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    flow rate. In the first speed-flow diagram, the free flow branch is a horizontal line, which shows that the roadway is at free flow speed until the optimum...
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  • Thumbnail for High-speed rail in Europe
    High-speed rail (HSR) has developed in Europe as an increasingly popular and efficient means of transport. The first high-speed rail lines on the continent...
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  • A speed record is a world record for speed by a person, animal, or vehicle. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects...
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