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Answer for the clue "An increase in speed ", 12 letters:
acceleration

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Word definitions for acceleration in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics and physics , acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of a curve with respect to a given linear connection . This operation provides us with a measure of the rate and direction of the "bend".

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin accelerationem (nominative acceleratio ) "a hastening," noun of action from past participle stem of accelerare "to hasten, quicken" (see accelerate ).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE rapid ▪ A rapid acceleration took place in the implementation of the agrarian reform. ▪ The rapid acceleration of prices was the result of the interaction of a number of developments. ▪ But over the last decade ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acceleration \Ac*cel`er*a"tion\, n. [L. acceleratio: cf. F. acc['e]l['e]ration.] The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; ...

Usage examples of acceleration.

Kelly was busy running an acceleration recompute when the update for this particular maneuver came in, so I took over the computer and input the change.

We need an inertia-less drive so that we can stand that acceleration without being squashed to a mush.

The bigger the acceleration that the drives produce, the closer to the disk we move the living-capsule up the central column here.

The disk pulled us towards it at twenty-one gee, the acceleration of the ship pulled us away from it at twenty gee, and we sat there in the middle at a snug and comfortable standard gravity.

We sat there, furious and not looking at each other, as the acceleration was slowly throttled back and the capsule moved away from the disk to resume its free-flight position two hundred and fifty meters behind it.

Closest approach distances for every body within five hundred AU, assuming McAndrew held the same course and acceleration all the way out.

We had both ships under one gee acceleration drives, complicated by the combined attraction of the two mass plates.

Jasper, she ignited her thrusters and her stomach settled as acceleration gripped her.

Carefully, he swung onto the downdeck ladder and climbed down three levels, feeling the increased acceleration in his thighs.

Moments later the subdued whistle of the engines faded and Dane could hear the structure of the ship creak around them as acceleration ceased.

Miraculously unbroken despite the changes in acceleration, its weight was impossible to guess in the microgravity of the ship, but its mass was pleasing.

Cofort rose and made to follow, her graceful form showing no sign of the high acceleration, but when she paused to glance back, Jellico gave in to impulse and stayed her with a gesture.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

She flexed the controls, watching the moire patterns of stress and acceleration shift, trying to correlate them with what she was feeling.

Tooe, its wasteful, almost pretentious insistence on nonexistent acceleration, with almost half her space sacrificed to a cramped up-down orientation.