acceleration

noun

Definition of accelerationnext
as in rate
an increasing in speed or rate of occurrence Experts predict a steady acceleration in economic growth over the next two years.

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Recent Examples of acceleration The telescope is designed to live at a location in space known as L2, which is a Lagrange point, where the gravitational acceleration from the sun and Earth balance out, allowing the telescope to stay in a stable orbit. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026 Porsche also shortened the final-drive ratio by 8 percent, trading a bit of top speed for harder acceleration. — Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026 Conventional cars eventually become traction-limited, meaning additional wheel power cannot necessarily translate into faster acceleration. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 That is enough acceleration to make merging onto a freeway feel less like joining traffic and more like issuing a challenge to it. — New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for acceleration
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  1. rate
  2. pace
  3. speed
  4. velocity
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  • Data collected by the USDA said beef was one of seven categories forecasted to grow faster than the 20-year historical average rate.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And should the Federal Reserve raise its overnight lending rate to banks this year?
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of rate
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  • The revelation of the changes comes amid intense competition in the AI industry, as companies release updates to their large language models at a frenetic pace, each seeking to pull ahead of the other.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
  • And then the Internet changed everything Despite the advances in trading technology over the previous 400 years, nothing could match the pace of innovation that followed widespread access to the Internet in the 1990s.
    — Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of pace
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  • Lennon is electric, but technically Stone is Antioch’s speed back.
    — Mike McGraw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The rise lifted some components of the index into overbought territory, as measured by the relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that tracks the speed and size of price changes.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of speed
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  • Essentially a form of computational fluid dynamics, the simulation divides the flow passages into a very large number of tiny regions and calculates things such as velocity, pressure, turbulence, and temperature throughout the component.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The curves ahead are posted at a third of my current speed, but the big Brembos scrub off velocity easily, and the Slingshot rails through corner after corner.
    — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
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“Acceleration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acceleration. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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