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terminal velocity
terminal velocity n. the constant velocity that a falling object will eventually attain as the resistance of the medium through which it is falling increases to equal the accelerating force acting on the object, preventing further acceleration; (also occasionally) the maximum velocity a device or machine can achieve.
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1749 F. Holliday Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica II. 88 The altitude..from which a body sollicited by a constant force g in a non-resisting medium would fall to acquire the terminal velocity.
1829 Aurora & Pennsylvania Gaz. 21 Dec. 2/2 In many cases the engine perhaps had not acquired its maximum or terminal velocity when the stop took place.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) vii. 50 Bodies, in falling through a resisting medium, after a certain time acquire a uniform velocity, which is called their terminal velocity, with which they continue to descend.
1914 Aeronaut. Jrnl. 18 50 He had dived, and had reached a speed so high that he thought it wise to straighten out without waiting to reach the terminal velocity.
2015 North Shore (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 24 July 8 In a belly-to-earth position skydivers reach terminal velocity at 190km/h.
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