'acceleration' definitions:
Definition of 'acceleration'
(from WordNet)
noun
An increase in rate of change; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change" [ant: deceleration, retardation, slowing]
noun
The act of accelerating; increasing the speed [syn: acceleration, quickening, speedup] [ant: deceleration]
noun
(physics) a rate of increase of velocity [ant: deceleration]
Synonyms of 'acceleration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerando,
- aggravation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- deepening,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- drive,
- enhancement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- festination,
- forced march,
- forwarding,
- getaway,
- hastening,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hurrying,
- impetus,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- magnification,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- quickening,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- speeding,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- thrust,
- tightening
Words containing 'acceleration'
- accelerate,
- accelerated,
- accelerator,
- Particle accelerator,
- acceleration unit,
- accelerator factor,
- accelerator pedal,
- angular acceleration,
- centripetal acceleration,
- electron accelerator,
- induction accelerator,
- linear accelerator,
- parallelogram of accelerations,
- prothrombin accelerator,
- proton accelerator,
- cockcroft and walton accelerator,
- colliding beam accelerator,
- microwave linear accelerator,
- charge-exchange accelerator,
- cockcroft-walton accelerator,
- colliding-beam accelerator