accelerate
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
- First attested in the 1520's.
- Either from Latin accelerātus, perfect passive participle of accelerō (“I accelerate, hasten”), formed from ad + celerō (“I hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”). (see celerity), or Back-formation from acceleration.[1].
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
accelerate (third-person singular simple present accelerates, present participle accelerating, simple past and past participle accelerated)
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- to accelerate our departure.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated.
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Translations [edit]
to cause to move faster
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to quicken natural or ordinary progression or process
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to hasten
to become faster
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Adjective [edit]
accelerate
- (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate, and the like, sufficing.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
References [edit]
- ^ 2004 [1998], Elliott K. Dobbie; Dunmore, C. William, et al., Barnhart, Robert K. editor, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Edinburgh, Scotland: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0550142304, page 6:
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
accelerate pl
- feminine form of accelerato
Verb [edit]
accelerate
- second-person plural present tense of accelerare
- second-person plural imperative of accelerare
- feminine plural past participle of accelerare
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
accelerāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of accelerō
