different between speedup vs expedite

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase speed up.

Noun

speedup (countable and uncountable, plural speedups)

1. An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
   • 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (page 230)

     The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

2. (chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.
3. (labor, politics) An employer's demand for more output without more pay.

Alternative forms

• speed-up

Translations

Derived terms

• Blum's speedup theorem

English

Etymology

From Latin exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“bring forward, set right”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/

Verb

expedite (third-person singular simple present expedites, present participle expediting, simple past and past participle expedited)

1. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
2. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

Antonyms

• impede
• slow down

Related terms

• expede (obsolete)
• expedience
• expediency
• expedient
• expedition
• expediter
• expeditious
• expeditiously

Translations

Adjective

expedite (comparative more expedite, superlative most expedite)

1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     to make the way plain and expedite

2. Expeditious; quick; prompt.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     nimble and expedite […] in its operation

   • speech in general […] is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Etymology

From exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“liberate, free”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di?.te?/, [?ks?p??d?i?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di.te/, [?ksp??d?i?t??]

Adverb

exped?t? (comparative exped?tius, superlative exped?tissim?)

1. freely, without impediment.
2. readily, promptly, quickly

Related terms

• expedi?
• exped?tus

References

• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expedite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

expedite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expeditar.