different between speedup vs faster

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæst?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??st?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(?), -??st?(?)
• Hyphenation: fast?er

Etymology 1

fast (“quick; quickly”) +? -er.

Adjective

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Adverb

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Etymology 2

fast (“refrain from eating”) +? -er.

Noun

faster (plural fasters)

1. One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.

Translations

Anagrams

• afters, farest, freats, strafe

Danish

Etymology

Equivalent to far (“father”) +? søster (“sister”), from Old Norse f?ðursystir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast?r/, [?fasd??]

Noun

faster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)

1. paternal aunt (one's father's sister)

Inflection

Hypernyms

• tante

References

• “faster” in Den Danske Ordbog

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse f?ðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.

Noun

faster f

1. paternal aunt

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

faster m or f

1. indefinite plural of faste

Verb

faster

1. present of faste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse f?ðursystir f (“father's sister”), akin to Norwegian Nynorsk farsyster.

Alternative forms

• farsyster, farsøster (long forms)

Noun

faster f (definite singular fastra, indefinite plural fastrer, definite plural fastrene)

1. a paternal aunt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

faster f

1. indefinite plural of faste
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of fasta

References

• “faster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

faster

1. fast, firm

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: fast

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish faþur systir, faþersyster, from Old Norse f?ðursystir.

Pronunciation

Noun

faster c

1. paternal aunt

Declension

See also

• moster

Anagrams

• festar, safter