different between acceleration vs accelerograph

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

accelero- +? -graph

Noun

accelerograph (plural accelerographs)

1. (military) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.
2. (geology) An instrument used to record the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake.

Translations

See also

sense 2. accelerograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia