Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

Swiftness. Beccaria argues that in order to be an effective deterrent, punishments must possess celerity. A punishment that occurs quickly after the crime helps to form a strong connection between the punishment and the crime in the minds of the general public, so that whenever a citizen contemplates a criminal act, he will instantly recall the punishment and weigh it into his deliberation. See also certainty and severity.

swiftness, speed.

Celerity or EDI Factory are the biggest EDI solutions providers in Ireland operating in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. They cooperate with international companies like Unilever, Statoil or Diageo.

Celerity, an open-source, Java based data-flow architecture that provides high performance with fine data granuality. Celerity offers a module based programming environment, which can parrellelize across processors, machines and architectures.

The magnitude of WAVE VELOCITY.

Velocity of a moving wave, as distinguished from velocity of particles oscillating in the wave.