escape velocity (plural escape velocities)
- (astrophysics) The minimum speed needed to escape the gravitational field of a planet or other body.
1996, Thomas Arny, Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy, McGraw-Hill Science, page 74:The gravitational force exerted by a planet determines its surface gravity and escape velocity.
- (figurative) A major breakthrough or milestone; momentum.
2024 April 18, Nicole Sperling, Benjamin Mullin, quoting Rich Greenfield, “Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:“All signs point to Netflix having reached escape velocity, with subscribers scaling far faster than investors expected,” Mr. Greenfield said.
minimum velocity
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: سرعة الإفلات
- Armenian: երկրորդ տիեզերական արագություն (erkrord tiezerakan aragutʻyun)
- Asturian: velocidá d'escape f
- Basque: ihes-abiadura
- Belarusian: другая касмічная скорасць f (druhaja kasmičnaja skórascʹ)
- Bulgarian: втора́ косми́ческа ско́рост f (vtorá kosmíčeska skórost)
- Catalan: velocitat d'escapament f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 宇宙速度 (jyu5 zau6 cuk1 dou6)
- Mandarin: 宇宙速度 (zh) (yǔzhòu sùdù)
- Czech: úniková rychlost f
- Danish: undvigelseshastighed (da)
- Dutch: ontsnappingssnelheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: eskapa rapido, fuĝa rapideco, forir-rapideco, liberiga rapido
- Estonian: paokiirus
- Finnish: pakonopeus (fi)
- French: vitesse de libération (fr) f
- Galician: velocidade de escape (gl) f
- German: Fluchtgeschwindigkeit (de) f
- Greek: ταχύτητα διαφυγής (tachýtita diafygís)
- Hebrew: מהירות מילוט (he)
- Hindi: पलायन वेग (palāyan veg)
- Hungarian: szökési sebesség (hu)
- Icelandic: lausnarhraði m
- Indonesian: kecepatan lepas
- Irish: treoluas éalaithe m
- Italian: velocità di fuga f
- Japanese: 宇宙速度 (うちゅうそくど, uchū sokudo), 脱出速度 (だっしゅつそくど, dasshutsu sokudo)
- Kannada: ವಿಮೋಚನ ವೇಗ (vimōcana vēga)
- Kazakh: екінші космостық жылдамдық (ekınşı kosmostyq jyldamdyq)
- Latvian: kosmiskais ātrums m
- Lithuanian: pabėgimo greitis
- Macedonian: втора космичка брзина f (vtora kosmička brzina)
- Malayalam: പലായന പ്രവേഗം (palāyana pravēgaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: unnslipningshastighet, parabolsk hastighet
- Nynorsk: unnsleppingsfart
- Persian: سرعت گریز (sor'at-e goriz)
- Polish: prędkość ucieczki f
- Portuguese: velocidade de escape f
- Punjabi: ਇਸਕੇਪ ਗਤੀ (isakep gatī)
- Romanian: viteză de eliberare f
- Russian: втора́я косми́ческая ско́рость (ru) f (vtorája kosmíčeskaja skórostʹ), ско́рость убега́ния (skórostʹ ubegánija)
- Serbo-Croatian: друга космичка брзина f, druga kosmička brzina f
- Slovak: úniková rýchlosť f
- Slovene: ubéžna hitróst f
- Spanish: velocidad de escape f
- Swedish: flykthastighet (sv)
- Tamil: விடுபடு திசைவேகம் (viṭupaṭu ticaivēkam)
- Telugu: పలాయన వేగము (palāyana vēgamu)
- Thai: ความเร็วหลุดพ้น (kwaam-reo-lùt-pón)
- Turkish: kurtulma hızı
- Ukrainian: друга космічна швидкість f (druha kosmična švydkistʹ)
- Urdu: فراری سمتار, اسکیپ ولاسٹی
- Uzbek: ikkinchi kosmik tezlik
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