acceleration
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
accelerate /əkˈsɛləreɪt/
▶verb begin to move more quickly.
■ increase in rate, amount, or extent.
■ Physics undergo a change in velocity.
– derivatives
acceleration noun,
accelerative adjective.
acceleration noun,
accelerative adjective.
– origin C16 (earlier (C15) as acceleration): from L. accelerat-, accelerare ‘hasten’, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’.
'acceleration' also found in these Oxford entries:
a
- accelerant
- accelerate
- accelerometer
- antigravity
- booster
- catalysis
- delta-v
- dimension
- drag race
- g
- gal
- gravity
- inertial
- mass
- moment of inertia
- newton
- poke
- poky
- poundal
- sporty
- terminal velocity
