highest speed
Top rate possible
Highest speed is the maximum velocity something can achieve or has achieved.
It often appears in contexts of records and limits: The car's highest speed was 150 miles per hour, What's the highest speed you've ever driven?
In technical contexts, it may refer to a machine's top operating setting: Run the fan at its highest speed.
- maximalGreatest in extent
- fastnessFortified place of refuge
- rapiditySwiftness of movement
- hypersonicFaster than Mach five
- quicknessState of being fast
velocity · swift · Mach number · sprinting · celerity · breakneck · pedal to the metal · full throttle · terminal velocity · racing · drag racing · jet propulsion · overclocking · sound barrier · acceleration · rallying · autobahn · wind tunnel
highest speedminimum speed
Lowest acceptable rate of travel
standstill · dead stop · crawl · snail's pace · stall speed
highest speedcruising speed
Sustained efficient velocity
idle · coasting · low gear · resting state · steady pace
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