FASTEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fastest mean? 

• FASTEST (adverb)
  The adverb FASTEST has 1 sense:

1. most quickly

  Familiarity information: FASTEST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most quickly

Synonyms:

fastest; quickest

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

 Context examples 

It is the world's fastest springing species and predator.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

The dose, now considered the highest, safe upper dose of the vitamin by the Institute of Medicine, reduced arterial stiffness the most and the fastest: 10.4 percent in four months.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In this stage of their lives, the stars are likely spinning the fastest they ever will.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

Barnard’s star is the fastest moving star in the night sky.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)

The evolution of these devices centres mainly on the development of new ‘recognition chemicals’ that enable the relevant compounds to be monitored in the fastest, simplest, and most reliable way possible.

(Scientists design devices to calculate the concentration of potassium in water, of creatinine in urine, or glucose in blood using smartphone technology, University of Granada)

It grows by one millimetre every ninety seconds, making it one of the fastest growing plant materials.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

The research also identified the fastest speed-up of Antarctic glaciers during the seven-year study period.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

Earlier this year, Warholm set a personal best time of 46.92 seconds in the 400 m hurdles, the second-fastest time recorded in the history of the event.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

Very well, said she; and they set out: and as Frederick walked the fastest, he left his wife some way behind.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"'He travels the fastest who travels alone,'" she quoted at him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)