speed up
IPA: spˈidˈʌp
verb
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed.
- (transitive) To accelerate (something): to increase its speed, to make it go faster.
speedup
IPA: spˈidʌp
noun
- An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
- (chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.
- (labor, politics) An employer's demand for more output without more pay.
speed-up
IPA: spˈidʌp
noun
- Alternative spelling of speedup [An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.]
Examples of "speedup" in Sentences
- Speedup in a sequential program.
- Linear speedup or ideal speedup is obtained when .
- To a user, the speedup is normally not noticeable.
- The temporary speedup in business expensing will cost another $55 billion.
- The speedup ratio is lower because the hooks will less often be used again since many cells are pruned away.
- The Justice Department's Inspector General concluded that the speedup plan resulted in poor background checks on thousands of applicants.
- Has it dawned on Friedman that this kind of speedup, which is reflected in so many aspects of modern life including the stock market, may be a source of our deeper woes?
- The speedup is the latest move in a tumultuous legislative session that followed last fall's midterm elections in which Republicans won the governorship and control of both chambers of the Legislature.
- Here, we describe and implement an O (NL (psi (L))) engine for the consecutive windows folding problem, where psi (L) is shown to converge to O (1) under the assumption of a standard probabilistic polymer folding model, yielding an O (L) speedup which is experimentally confirmed.
- One of the most important issues today, even more important than wages to the workers, to our struggling with something we never heard of, is automation, are the work rules, the kind of speedup that there is today with automation is entirely different from the speedups that we knew in the old day.
- While the immediate issue in the strike was a speedup imposed by General Motors, the workers quickly turned it into a rebellion against the UAW—“our union, Miss Goody Two Shoes”—which they accused of being more concerned with maintaining high production standards than with defending the freedom of the members.
Examples of "speed-up" in Sentences
- Meanwhile, the quality of these workers 'jobs is being degraded by an industry speed-up, Gordon points out.
- European Union will propose a Europe-wide fund to speed-up decision-making in case of bank collapse financed by levies on banks
- Juxtaposed against the speed-up of the time lapse are painfully slow motion scenes that depict moments from my training -- a raw egg dropping into a mouth or a face as it "maxes out."
- But any speed-up in enrichment would increase its supply of low-enriched material more quickly — and also speed up conversion into high-enriched, weapons grade uranium, should Iran choose to go that route.
- The impact of these budget pressures on workers in the public sector is likely to be massive layoffs, permanent downsizings, further pressure on wages and benefits, speed-up, and deteriorating working conditions.
- Mr. Liu, who has been held at an undisclosed location since early 2011 by Communist Party prosecutors, personally approved an ill-considered speed-up of the railway line where the accident occurred, the report said.
- More Parsing the Fed: How statement changed Read the Fed's statement Barring a surprise shift in the economy — an unanticipated burst of inflation or a significant speed-up or slowdown in economic growth — the Fed is likely to stay the course with the bond purchases through June.