Usually means: Maximum constant speed during freefall.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal velocity: Merriam-Webster
  2. terminal velocity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terminal velocity: Collins English Dictionary
  4. terminal velocity: Vocabulary.com
  5. terminal velocity: Wordnik
  6. terminal velocity: Wiktionary
  7. terminal velocity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. terminal velocity: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. terminal velocity: Dictionary.com
  10. Terminal Velocity (computer game), Terminal Velocity (film), Terminal Velocity (video game), Terminal velocity (disambiguation), Terminal velocity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. terminal velocity: Rhymezone
  12. terminal velocity: FreeDictionary.org
  13. terminal velocity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. terminal velocity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terminal velocity: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Terminal Velocity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Terminal Velocity: Extragalactic Astronomy

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Terminal velocity: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Terminal velocity: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. TERMINAL VELOCITY, VELOCITY, TERMINAL: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (terminal velocity)

noun:  The speed at which an object in free-fall and not in a vacuum ceases to accelerate downwards because the force of gravity is equal and opposite to the drag force acting against it.

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