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FASTEST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most quickly

Synonyms:

fastest; quickest

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

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 Context examples: 

Located in the Brabazon Range of southeastern Alaska, Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers in the world.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

Main findings are that snap-jaws are the fastest of the spring-loaded ant mouthparts, and the fastest currently known animal movement.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diabetes has been rising alarmingly in recent decades — with the fastest increase in low- and middle-income countries — and could affect 580 million people by 2035.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)

The Ghost is considered the fastest schooner in both the San Francisco and Victoria fleets.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“He’s the fastest bowler in the Midlands, and at his best there weren’t many boxers in England that could stand up against him.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two new studies by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, detect the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented direct view of intense ice melting from the floating undersides of glaciers.

(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their speedup is an observed influx of warm water into the bay where they're located.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

The present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, may have already been underway as early as the 1940s, according to findings from an international research team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

The researchers took CT scans of the entire lung labyrinth and used two supercomputers — including one of the fastest systems in the world, Blue Waters — to simulate airflow patterns at the highest resolution.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)