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.

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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.

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1. accelerate

   To accelerate is to increase the speed or rate of something, typically a vehicle or process. It can also refer to the act of causing something to happen sooner or more quickly. In physics, it's defined as a change in velocity or speed per unit of time.

2. accelerate

   To accelerate means to increase the speed or rate of something or to cause something to happen faster. It can also refer to a change in velocity or direction of a object in motion.

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

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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

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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. J. Hart:

   Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

2. Fitch Ratings analysts:

   Apple could be another victim of the US-China trade war and its market-share loss may accelerate in the Chinese market.

3. Robert Kotloff:

   Women with LAM who become pregnant often experience an acute worsening of their disease, and women who take estrogen therapeutically in birth control pills or in the past with hormonal supplementation for menopausal women, we saw LAM would accelerate in [those groups].

4. Chief Executive Michael Ward:

   The IPO will provide the platform for the continued success of the business, as well as accelerate its growth opportunities and facilitate value creation through an increased ability to acquire, incentivise, differentiate and where sensible diversify.

5. State Department spokesman Mark Toner:

   We have made great progress towards making our posts safer since 2012, … Our implementation efforts include work to expand the corps of Diplomatic Security personnel, enhance interagency coordination to address threat information, expand the Marine Security Guard program, and accelerate projects to build and upgrade secure facilities.

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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. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accelerate
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=accelerate
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=accelerate
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=accelerate