acceleration
IPA: æksɛɫɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
- (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
- (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.
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Examples of "acceleration" in Sentences
- The acceleration would kill the occupants.
- The value represents the acceleration factor.
- The car was capable of with respectable acceleration.
- The force is the cause and the acceleration is the effect.
- The centrifugal acceleration experienced at the equator is.
- That is, the acceleration is a negative multiple of the position.
- So it's a scientific use of the term acceleration, as opposed to what we would think of.
- The acceleration is dire, with the 1.0l engine barely pulling, and on the open road it takes work to get it to 60, much less past it.
- : Basically, this apps just attempts to give a value for the local gravitational field (which it calls the acceleration due to gravity).
- We already knew that one of the causes of acceleration is the release of sequestered methane into the atmosphere as the temperature rises.
- When it comes to efficient video playback, the ability to access hardware acceleration is the single most important factor in the overall CPU load.
- "The solar probe will let us really dip right down in there and see what we call the acceleration region, which is where the coronal heating happens," Goetz said.
- She's not the only driver complaining; Other Prius drivers have filed reports with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concerning what they describe as acceleration problems.
- The way it works behind the scenes is that when you are running the Bump app, whenever the phone's accelerometer detects a bump (a sudden change in acceleration) it timestamps the event and sends it to the Bump server.