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acceleration

noun as in increasing speed, timing

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Companies are finding new ways to do business, and in the process we’re seeing an acceleration of technologies that, though they were already in the pipeline, would have taken several more years to really pick up speed.

There’s huge swaths of our society that will be completely left behind by the acceleration of these technological trends.

From Ozy

The acceleration of digitization, the re-thinking of offices, the increasing involvement of stakeholders on issues like safety and diversity, have created a greater need and desire by executives to convene and share ideas and best practices.

From Fortune

If you want powerful, fast acceleration from a dead stop to get up to speed in traffic or with heavy loads, a Class 2 throttle-assist bike with a motor that has a max torque of 60 Newton-meters or higher might be the right approach.

Meanwhile, direct-to-consumer sales are up 1,400 percent from the same time last year, a surge Wolfe Pereira attributes to “the acceleration of e-commerce.”

From Ozy

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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