Rapid in a sentence as a noun

It’s incredibly hard to do, and I don't trust anyone at a rapid growth company to do it right.

Instead, we seem to be pulling them off foot patrols and sticking them into cars to create rapid response forces.

At the time, it was held out as a threat - agree to rapid takedown, or be subject to US regulation.

One reason for this is the lack of a rapid, sensitive, inexpensive screening method.

Let them die of exposure if they haven't saved a fortune and can't cope gracefully with rapid technological progress.

If I go there and say hey, you need better developers, more rapid prototyping and managers who are technical enough, nothing will change.

You have to read books written by people who have gone before, and learn from their mistakes, which you can do at a far more rapid pace than you can by making all those mistakes yourself.

Rapid in a sentence as an adjective

So the need for rapid proofs of what the design would probably look like became more and more important -- even then the proof only had a passing resemblance to the final product.

A novel paper sensor is described that simply, rapidly and inexpensively screens for pancreatic cancer.

All of these solutions suffer from the same basic problem namely they are trying to squeeze a dynamic, multidimensional viewport into a linear text string for rapid communication.

This is the one in a thousand/million fairy-tale of the frivolous app dreamed up in coffee shops, fuelled by rapid investment and sold for vast sums to a tech giant without so much as a whiff of a business model.

We have had very rapid turnaround on any bugs we find and it has been invaluable to have people who understand the game, the renderer, the driver, and the hardware working alongside us when attacking these performance issues.

Python is only mentioned in passing, as an inferior choice to Haskell for rapid prototyping of mathematically-oriented code.- Go is presented as the "better C", which is encouraging but I'd feel more encouraged if the author showed they were properly familiar with some additional modern programming languages and the cases in which one might use them.- The assertion that "you can write object-oriented code in C" is accurate, although I think a better point to stress is "you can write mostly-well-modularised code in C, and that's what you want a lot of the time.

Rapid definitions

noun

a part of a river where the current is very fast

adjective

done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks"

adjective

characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movement"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy"

See also: speedy