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accelerate

[ak-sel-uh-reyt]

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verb (used with object)

to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: to accelerate economic growth.

to hasten the occurrence of: to accelerate the fall of a government.

Mechanics. to change the velocity of (a body) or the rate of (motion); cause to undergo acceleration.

to reduce the time required for (a course of study) by intensifying the work, eliminating detail, etc.

verb (used without object)

to move or go faster; increase in speed.

to progress or develop faster.

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Origin:
1515–25; < Latin accelerātus speeded up (past participle of accelerāre), equivalent to ac- ac- + celer swift + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

ac·cel·er·a·ble, adjective

ac·cel·er·at·ed·ly, adverb

o·ver·ac·cel·er·ate, verb, -at·ed, -at·ing.

re·ac·cel·er·ate, verb, -at·ed, -at·ing.

self-ac·cel·erat·ing, adjective

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un·ac·cel·er·at·ed, adjective

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Even if job growth were to accelerate sharply in coming months, the economy would be years away from so-called full employment.

The creation of new knowledge and new technologies continues to accelerate rapidly.

The opening of social networks may now accelerate thanks to that older next big thing, web-mail.

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Even if job growth were to accelerate sharply in coming months, the economy would be years away from so-called full employment.

The creation of new knowledge and new technologies continues to accelerate rapidly.

The opening of social networks may now accelerate thanks to that older next big thing, web-mail.

Global warming may accelerate the melting of polar ice caps, causing sea levels to rise.

The heat-trapping gas could dramatically accelerate global warming.

If these forces were not the same, this section of air would accelerate up or down.

In a negotiated agreement, the magazine promised to accelerate recruitment and promotion of women.

The movement towards separating academically-oriented programs from career-oriented training might accelerate.

Fears of a renewed slowdown in global trade accelerate the rush to find economies of scale.

Growing crops to make biofuels may accelerate global warming, not slow down its effects, a new study says.

One, it might accelerate the search for treatments for the incurable disease that ran in their family.

Accelerate gently to get your wheels moving again and increase traction.

The recent great recession is going to accelerate this trend.

If unemployment continues to fall, wages will certainly accelerate.

In theory such a craft could accelerate to a sizable fraction of the speed of light-without carrying fuel.

But elephants use all four limbs to accelerate and brake.

Hopefully this will accelerate its progress into the driest parts of the world.

The pace of program cuts is likely only to accelerate during the next year.

However, the political environment is obstructing the implementation of deeper reforms needed to accelerate growth.

The finding adds weight to the idea that methane being released from wetlands today may accelerate modern global warming.

The finding could help in the development of ways to accelerate the process.

Since it was moving up, but slowing down it has to accelerate in the downward direction.

Green roofs have been found to cause mold problems, moving the greenery indoors will accelerate that.

They are certainly a way to accelerate the spread of best practice.

Most predictions say the warming of the planet will continue and likely will accelerate.

New policies could dramatically accelerate that evolutio.

Earthquakes accelerate buildings laterally, whipping them back and forth.

As state budgets get more impoverished and startes looking where to cut, the questioning of tenure will accelerate.

To make a serious dent in the unemployment rate, the pace of job creation needs to accelerate.

Less carbon in the soil means more carbon in the atmosphere, which will accelerate the pace of warming, he said.

These weapons may help make it possible to enhance immunity and accelerate vaccine efforts.

As you accelerate upwards you are shedding weight in the form of fuel so the same thrust gets you more acceleration.

Located in big cities, they accelerate urbanisation.

Some experts fear today's temperature rise could accelerate into a devastating climate lurch.

The directors hope that year-round work will accelerate fossil recovery fivefold.

The graphics chip race is proving almost as entertaining as the video games they accelerate.

Prices will accelerate if the money created by buying bonds is put to use-but that would boost the economy.

After that, the researchers warn, the rate of global warming could accelerate.

These charges also accelerate and collide to release still more electrons, and so forth.

Accelerate the pulse and you shorten the time needed to store or rewrite information.

They obtain energy from chemical reactions with sulphides, and can thus accelerate the breakdown of minerals.

They could, in turn, accelerate the rising of the seas.

If the wealth is shared, population trends will accelerate and the world will probably crash.

It's a way to accelerate the growth of web apps and to nudge other browser vendors into adopting new features.

And when you do stop, accelerate slowly--don't floor the gas pedal.

The growing dependence of cars on computers will accelerate this process.

It's a matter of physics-larger bodies are harder to accelerate and decelerate.

Two years ago, the same authors found that it was possible to radically accelerate this fading.

Accelerate slowly and steadily and minimize braking.

The riders flash past almost inconceivably quickly, seeming to accelerate by the moment.

As habitat zones shift, ecosystems will be altered and species extinction will accelerate.

Almost every one of the administration's domestic policies seems intended to accelerate our march back to the robber baron era.

The cuts accelerate a steady move away from a publicly.

It could even help accelerate climate change, some scientists say.

The rate of sea level rise could accelerate in the next century, and it's not clear whether the coral atolls can keep.

Indeed it would be odd so pull a block to the right and have it accelerate to the left.

Governments are trying to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels.

It is not known why vasectomy would accelerate tumor growth.

It will also sponsor annual conferences and a set of networking resources designed to accelerate development and deployment.

And only when prices accelerate will it become clear that unemployment has fallen to an unsustainably low point.

Even states seemingly removed from the real estate bubble are seeing foreclosures accelerate as the recession grinds on.

These engines are large so that they can accelerate a vehicle rapidly:.

The processes of cultural change accelerate with improvements in transportation and communication.

Increasing incidents of hurricanes only accelerate the erosion.

Fortunately the car had the guts to accelerate me out of danger.

What happens when you accelerate in your car is that the engine provides a torque that starts to turn the wheels.

Temporary ripples in space-time-gravitational waves-are caused when such objects accelerate.

Policy makers need to restore faith in ratings to encourage capital flows and accelerate the economic recovery.

For several reasons, the pace of change must now accelerate.

Aluminum powder was also used to accelerate the explosion and added to the ferocity of the blaze, officials said.

The hadron collider will accelerate protons to almost the speed of light and then collide them.

Becchio speculates that the presence of a twin may accelerate motor development.

The idea is to accelerate the development of eco-friendlier cars that are fun to drive.

Sand dollar larvae had previously been observed cloning themselves to accelerate a population boom when food is abundant.

And our only hope is to try and accelerate human evolution with the aid of genetic engineering.

The fear is that this will accelerate a broader trend.

Quite possibly, the next debilitating illness might accelerate the rate of his leukemia.

The voltage across a discharge tube will accelerate a free electron up to some maximum kinetic energy.

Remember your taxes are certain to accelerate upwards, to pay for all these indecent provisions.

As with any attempt to accelerate or enhance nature, aquaponics has costs and complications.

First, an example: suppose you are in a car at rest and press the gas pedal all the way down causing the car to accelerate.

Bringing ticket-sellers together with venue-owners will accelerate them.

Engineering advances in automobile production will dramatically accelerate the trend.

The electrons then hitch a ride on the wake and accelerate toward the speed of light, all in about a meter of.

And productivity growth may accelerate when new, and often superior, machinery is installed.

Momentum generated by photons, could cause the solar craft to accelerate continuously, eventually up to unprecedented speeds.

The magnets help produce the plasma, and guide and accelerate it through the system.

Indeed, some people say an economic slowdown is likely to accelerate the shift to the internet.

How do you plan to accelerate the development of these.

Deploying those tools will accelerate a change in viewpoint for scientists who track carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Archer says that methane released from the ocean could accelerate global warming over a time frame of thousands of years.

Most students complete the programme in three years but it is possible to accelerate this.

He also designed the water jet pump, which can accelerate filtration by creating.

As the next president gets his agenda started, this process will will accelerate into millions of acres.

They wanted to accelerate the natural trend, seeing in a few years what would normally take.

Once their effectiveness has run its course, memory loss and cognitive decline progress unimpeded, and sometimes even accelerate.

Toxins in cigarette smoke accelerate skin-cell aging.

Very often the receiver will catch the ball moving to the center of the field and then have to accelerate towards the end zone.

Researchers have found that major disasters tend to accelerate existing social and economic.

And they set out to find out what they could do to accelerate the development of stem cell research into treatment.

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World English Dictionary

accelerate (ækˈsɛləˌreɪt)

—vb
1.	to go, occur, or cause to go or occur more quickly; speed up
2.	(tr) to cause to happen sooner than expected
3.	(tr) to increase the velocity of (a body, reaction, etc); cause acceleration

[C16: from Latin accelerātus, from accelerāre to go faster, from ad- (intensive) + celerāre to hasten, from celer swift]

ac'celerable

—*adj*

ac'celerative

—*adj*

ac'celeratory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

accelerate

1520s, from L. acceleratus, pp. of accelerare "to hasten, to quicken," from ad- "to" + celerare "hasten," from celer "swift" (see celerity).

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