different between acceleration vs accelerate

English

Alternative forms

• acc.
• a.

Etymology

First attested in 1531. From French accélération or more likely directly from Latin acceler?ti? (“a hastening, acceleration”). Equivalent to accelerate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ks?l?r?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?k.?s?l.?.??e?.??n/, /æk.?s?l.?.??e?.??n/, /?k.?s?l.?.??e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

acceleration (countable and uncountable, plural accelerations)

1. (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.

2. (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
3. (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
4. The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.

Usage notes

Acceleration in SI units is measured in metres per second per second (m/s²), or in imperial units in feet per second per second (ft/s²).

Antonyms

• (act or state, amount): deceleration, retardation

Translations

See also

• displacement
• velocity
• jerk

References

Interlingua

Noun

acceleration (plural accelerationes)

1. acceleration

Swedish

Etymology

accelerera +? -tion

Noun

acceleration c

1. acceleration; a change in velocity

Declension

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?