Definitions for Accelerate
ækˈsɛl əˌreɪtac·cel·er·ate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. accelerate, speed up, speed, quickenverb

   move faster

   "The car accelerated"

2. accelerate, speed, speed upverb

   cause to move faster

   "He accelerated the car"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. accelerateverb

   To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

2. accelerateverb

   To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

   to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

3. accelerateverb

   To cause a change of velocity.

4. accelerateverb

   To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

   to accelerate our departure.

5. accelerateverb

   To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.

6. accelerateverb

   To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

7. accelerateverb

   Grow; increase.

8. accelerateadjective

   Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

9. Etymology: * First attested in the 1520's.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To ACCELERATEverb

   Etymology: accelero, Lat.

   1. To make quick, to hasten, to quicken motion; to give a continual impulse to motion, so as perpetually to encrease.

   Take new beer, and put in some quantity of stale beer into it; and see whether it will not accelerate the clarification, by opening the body of the beer, whereby the grosser parts may fall down into lees. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 307.

   If the rays endeavour to recede from the densest part of the vibration, they may be alternately accelerated and retarded by the vibrations overtaking them. Isaac Newton, Optics.

   Spices quicken the pulse, and accelerate the motion of the blood, and dissipate the fluids; from whence leanness, pains in the stomach, loathings, and fevers. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   Lo! from the dread immensity of space
   Returning, with accelerated course,
   The rushing comet to the sun descends. James Thomson, Sum. l. 1690.

   2. It is generally applied to matter, and used chiefly in philosophical language; but is sometimes used on other occasions.

   In which council the king himself, whose continual vigilancy did suck in sometimes causeless suspicions, which few else knew, inclined to the accelerating a battle. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Perhaps it may point out to a student now and then, what may employ the most useful labours of his thoughts, and accelerate his diligence in the most momentous enquiries. Isaac Watts, Impr.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accelerate

   Accelerate is a song by American singer Christina Aguilera and was released as the lead single from her eighth studio album Liberation (2018). It features guest vocals from singer Ty Dolla Sign and rapper 2 Chainz. The song was produced by Kanye West alongside Che Pope, Mike Dean and Eric Danchick, with co-production from Honorable C. N. O. T. E. and Charlie Heat. "Accelerate" became Aguilera's tenth number-one song on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accelerateverb

   to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard

2. Accelerateverb

   to quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc

3. Accelerateverb

   to hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accelerate

   Accelerate is the 14th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate was intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M. previewed several of the album's tracks during a five-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and recorded the album in a nine-week schedule.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accelerate

   ak-sel′ėr-āt, v.t. to increase the speed of: to hasten the progress of.—n. Accelerā′tion, the act of hastening: increase of speed.—adj. Accel′erative, quickening.—n. Accel′erator, one who or that which accelerates: a light van to take mails between a post-office and a railway station.—adj. Accel′eratory. [L. accelerāre, -ātum—ad, to, celer, swift. See Celerity.]

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Accelerate' in Verbs Frequency: #1074

How to pronounce Accelerate?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Accelerate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Accelerate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Accelerate in a Sentence

1. Richard Ngatia:

   The mosques have been radicalizing youth, training and encouraging them in jihadism. We also recovered a booster used to accelerate explosions ... and literature about jihadism.

2. Maria Bruno:

   People who have left the workforce with large tax-deferred accounts can do some smart planning between age 65 and 70, presumably you have moved to a lower marginal tax bracket, so it may make sense to accelerate some of that income, and the tax liability.

3. Luke Trusel:

   As the atmosphere continues to warm, melting will outpace that warming and continue to accelerate.

4. Peter Openshaw:

   Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly, however, such studies are enormously informative about a disease. It is really vital that we move as fast as possible towards getting effective vaccines and other treatments for COVID-19, and challenge studies have the potential to accelerate and de-risk the development of novel drugs and vaccines.

5. Itay Michaeli:

   Even if no car is ever produced, it may accelerate the race to adopt 'Car of the Future' technologies.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Accelerate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Accelerate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Accelerate
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Accelerate
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Accelerate
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Accelerate