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Rapid and Cataract Definitions

Rapid

Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed. ]

Cataract

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

Rapid

Very swift or quick.
A rapid stream
Rapid growth
Rapid improvement

Cataract

A large or high waterfall.

Rapid

Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
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Cataract

A great downpour; a deluge.

Rapid

Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)

Cataract

(Medicine) Opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.

Rapid

Violent, severe.

Cataract

(obsolete) A waterspout.
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Rapid

Happy.

Cataract

A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
The cataracts on the Nile helped to compartment Upper Egypt.

Rapid

Rapidly.

Cataract

A flood of water.

Rapid

A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
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Cataract

(figuratively) An overwhelming downpour or rush.
His cataract of eloquence

Rapid

(dated) A burst of rapid fire.

Cataract

(pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.

Rapid

(chess) rapid chess

Cataract

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

Rapid

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.

Cataract

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; - sometimes called dashpot.

Rapid

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

Cataract

Clouding of the natural lens of the eye

Rapid

Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

Cataract

A large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice

Rapid

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; - usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.

Rapid

A part of a river where the current is very fast

Rapid

Done or occurring in a brief period of time;
A rapid rise through the ranks

Rapid

Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed;
A rapid movment
A speedy car
A speedy errand boy

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