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Webster 1913 Edition
Accelerate
Ac-cel′er-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accelerated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Accelerating
.] 1.
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; – opposed to
retard
. 2.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of;
as, to
accelerate
the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.3.
To hasten, as the occurence of an event;
as, to
. accelerate
our departureAccelerated motion
(Mech.)
, motion with a continually increasing velocity.
– Accelerating force
, the force which causes accelerated motion.
Nichol.
Syn. – To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accelerate
ACCEL'ERATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to move faster; to hasten; to quicken motion; to add to the velocity of a moving body. It implies previous motion or progression.2.
To add to natural or ordinary progression; as to accelerate the growth of a plant, or the progress of knowledge.3.
To bring nearer in time; to shorten the time between the present time and a future event; as to accelerate the ruin of a government; to accelerate a battle.Definition 2024
accelerate
accelerate
English
Verb
accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
- 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
- Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- to accelerate our departure
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated
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Translations
to cause to move faster
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to quicken natural or ordinary progression or process
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to hasten
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to become faster
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Adjective
accelerate
- (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like, sufficing.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
References
- ↑ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 6
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.
Italian
Adjective
accelerate f pl
- feminine plural of accelerato
Verb
accelerate
- second-person plural present indicative of accelerare
- second-person plural imperative of accelerare
- feminine plural of accelerato