different between accelerando vs accelerate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?t??l.?.???n.do/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /æks?l???ænd??/

Noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
2. (music) A passage having this mark.
3. (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
   • 2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195:

Adverb

accelerando (not comparable)

1. (music) with a gradual increase in speed

French

Adverb

accelerando

1. accelerando

Italian

Verb

accelerando

1. gerund of accelerare

Adverb

accelerando

1. accelerating

Latin

Participle

accelerand?

1. dative masculine singular of accelerandus
2. dative neuter singular of accelerandus
3. ablative masculine singular of accelerandus
4. ablative neuter singular of accelerandus

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin acceler?tus, perfect passive participle of acceler? (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celer? (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /æk.?s?l.?.??e?t/, /?k.?s?l.?.??e?t/

Verb

accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)

1. (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
2. (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
3. (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
4. (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

5. (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
6. (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
7. (intransitive) Grow; increase.
8. (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated

Synonyms

• (to cause to move faster): hasten, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
• (to quicken progress): expedite, further,
• (to hasten the occurrence of an event): advance, forward

Antonyms

• decelerate
• retard
• unaccelerate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accelerate

1. (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.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “accelerate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Italian

Adjective

accelerate

1. feminine plural of accelerato

Verb

accelerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of accelerare
2. second-person plural imperative of accelerare
3. feminine plural of accelerato

Latin

Verb

acceler?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of acceler?