hypervelocity
adjective, noun
hypervelocity is an adjective meaning “Having, or occurring at, extreme velocity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-V-E-L-O-C-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypervelocity mean?
adjective
- 1
Having, or occurring at, extreme velocity.
The satellite was destroyed by a hypervelocity impact.
noun
- 1
A very high velocity.
- 2
A hypersonic velocity.
- 3
A velocity greater than escape velocity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypervelocity?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hypervelocity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypervelocity
- hypervelocities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypervelocity?
Hypervelocity appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hypervelocity come from?
From hyper- + velocity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).