acceleration
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
acceleration
- (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
- a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity
- (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
- The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
Isaac Taylor - A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration […]
- (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
- The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
- (act or state, amount) deceleration, retardation
- French: accélération
- German: Beschleunigung
- Italian: accelerazione
- Portuguese: aceleração
- Russian: ускоре́ние
- Spanish: aceleración
- French: accélération
- German: Beschleunigung
- Italian: accelerazione
- Portuguese: aceleração
- Russian: ускоре́ние
- French: accélération
- German: Beschleunigung
- Italian: accelerazione
- Portuguese: aceleração
- Russian: ускоре́ние
- Spanish: aceleración
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