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• clock speed (noun)
  1. a measurement of how quickly a computer's CPU (= main controlling part) can deal with instructions
• execution speed (noun)
  1. computing the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS
• high-speed (adjective)
  1. designed to travel or operate very fast
  2. high-speed chase a situation when the police drive very fast to try to catch someone in a car
• high-speed steel (noun)
  1. an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools
• light speed (noun)
  1. the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
• off-speed pitch (noun)
  1. a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball
• speed bump (noun)
  1. a narrow raised area put across a road to force traffic to go slowly [=  sleeping policeman]
• speed camera (noun)
  1. a special camera that takes photographs of cars that are travelling faster than the legal speed limit. The photographs are used as proof that drivers have broken the law.
• speed cop (noun)
  1. and who checks the speeds of motorists a policeman who rides a motorcycle
• speed dating (noun)
  1. an event at which you meet and talk to a lot of different people for only a few minutes at at a time. People do this in order to try to meet someone and have a romantic relationship.
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• speed up (phrasal verb)
  1. [intransitive] to move or happen faster
  2. [transitive] to make something move or happen faster
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