The concept of celerity derives from the Latin word celerĭtas . It is a term that refers to speed , haste , rapidity or haste .
For example: "The government asked Justice for greater speed to resolve the cases that worry society" , "I am going to ask the bank manager to try to approve the loan quickly" , "The real estate project is advancing quickly and "It could be completed before the summer."
Let us remember that speed is a physical quantity that indicates the space that a body travels in a certain unit of time. If a car travels 80 kilometers in one hour , it moved with an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour . The notion of speed, in this framework, is subjective and is usually determined according to a comparison. Returning to the case of the car at 80 km/h , someone could consider that said vehicle did not travel quickly enough since other cars, respecting traffic regulations, usually travel the same route much faster. On the other hand, if we compare the time it would have taken the driver of the vehicle to advance on foot, the car allowed him to move much more quickly.
Physics accepts the term celerity as a synonym for speed to express precisely the relationship that exists between the distance that a body travels and the time that said action takes, as expressed in the previous paragraph. This magnitude is designated with the letter v and has a scalar dimension type.
The physical quantities called scalar (a masculine noun, which is why we speak of "a scalar", for example) are those that are expressed using only one number and that have the same value for any observer. In other words, they receive this name when all reference systems are represented by the same number.
Returning to the concept of celerity, it is correct to say that it shares the dimension with speed, but not the vector character : while speed is a vector (since it requires the value that we see in a speedometer plus the direction towards which the speed is moving). body), celerity is simply its module.
It is important to note that speed and speed are the most appropriate terms to talk about the speed module, although even in the field of science it is common to hear the three words as synonyms.
Speed can also be associated with haste , speed or haste . These ideas are linked to a movement that is accelerated or impetuous : the greater the speed, the greater the speed. It is even possible to relate speed to the speed of resolution of an issue or action (speed to complete a form, read a book, have lunch, etc.).
In everyday speech, the use of this term is not very common, although we can find it in formal settings, such as business and government, especially in written messages. Asking someone to act quickly, or "as quickly as possible" is perfectly correct, and in fact this word has a much softer nuance than "speed": although both express the same need on the part of the sender (that the interlocutor completes a certain task in the shortest time possible), in the first case there seems to be greater consideration regarding the other's effort.
The characteristics of modern life are not closely associated with speed, but rather with procrastination , that is, the action of unnecessarily postponing obligations due to difficulty concentrating. While many people believe that new forms of entertainment are to blame for such a lack of determination, it is up to each individual to decide to act responsibly.