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acceleration

noun as in increasing speed, timing

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One rapid acceleration per day adds up to $365 in additional fuel costs per year.

The three most fuel-costly activities are rough braking, rapid acceleration, and speeding above 70 mph.

And if the effect of acceleration was stronger in some patches than others, that would mean less or more clumping up of galaxies.

That return, and that acceleration, are not coincidences either.

It has three sensors which track steps, acceleration, and altitude.

I lay there, the increasing acceleration pressing me hard against the cool metal.

On a curved bridge the centrifugal load due to the radical acceleration of the train.

The function of this plunger is to provide a resistance in addition to that of the air valve spring to assist in acceleration.

You do not really employ that barbarous method of acceleration?

"All the other Gerns are by now in their acceleration couches," he said.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acceleration, such as: dispatch, expedition, hurrying, quickening, spurring, and stimulation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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