Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 18 compound words that contain acceleration. The most common are listed below. Open acceleration in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- acceleration of gravityThe acceleration of freely falling bodies under the influence of terrestrial gravity; 980.665 cm/sec², denoted g.
- angular accelerationThe rate of change of angular velocity, often represented by α.
- Great AccelerationThe continuous and roughly simultaneous surge in growth rate across a large range of measures of human activity, first recorded in the mid-20th century.
- acceleration laneA lane that allows traffic entering a highway to accelerate to the speed of through traffic before merging with it.
- hardware accelerationUsage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.
- plasma accelerationA method for accelerating electrically charged particles with a large-amplitude electron plasma wave.
- acceleration clausea provision in a contract that makes all obligations to be performed under the contract due immediately upon a specific occurrence, such as a breach
- four-accelerationA four-vector that describes the change in a particle's four-velocity over time
- plasma wakefield accelerationA method of high-gradient particle acceleration which uses the longitudinal electric field of plasma wakefield excited by a laser pulse or bunch of relativistic charged particles.
- proper accelerationThe acceleration felt by an object, as opposed to the coordinate acceleration. For example the acceleration of an object at the surface of the Earth is 9.81 m/s² upwards, but has no coordinate acceleration. The proper acceleration of an …
- Planck accelerationThe acceleration from rest to the speed of light in one Planck time.
- centripetal accelerationacceleration due to centripetal force.
- acceleration lanesplural of acceleration lane: A lane that allows traffic entering a highway to accelerate to the speed of through traffic before merging with it.
- acceleration principleA theory in economics that states that an increase or decrease in income induces a corresponding but magnified change in investment.
- acceleration clausesplural of acceleration clause: a provision in a contract that makes all obligations to be performed under the contract due immediately upon a specific occurrence, such as a breach
- acceleration of freefallThe constant acceleration experienced by an object falling solely under gravity, with no other forces such as air resistance acting on it.
Compound words 18
- decelerationThe act or process of decelerating.
- accelerationismThe idea that either the prevailing system of capitalism, or certain technosocial processes that historically characterised it, should be expanded and accelerated in order to generate radical social change.
- accelerationistA proponent of accelerationism.
- accelerationalOf, pertaining to, or caused by acceleration
- autoaccelerationA local increase in the rate of polymerization of a viscous monomer
- antiaccelerationOpposing academic acceleration.
- cardioaccelerationAn increase in the heartbeat rate.
- deaccelerationThe act of deaccelerating; retardation.
- hyperaccelerationHigh acceleration
- microaccelerationA numerically very small acceleration