The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accelerate \Ac*cel"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See Celerity.]
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
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To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.
Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity.
Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion.
--Nichol.Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.
Wiktionary
n. (context mechanics English) Motion with a continually increasing velocity.
Usage examples of "accelerated motion".
There is no way of distinguishing an accelerated motion from a gravitational field force, right?
There was no signs of a drive mechanism, and there could be none, since the delicate spikes and silvery filaments of exterior antennae were incompatible with accelerated motion.
A single mushroom sprouted, bursting from the soil in accelerated motion and opening its soft umbrella, white and delicate.
Even before he'd finished speaking, Lady A had set the ship into accelerated motion once again.
And in much the same way, the accelerated motion of the particles above, through the rapid rotation of those below and their interconnection with them, which seeks to hinder the separation, will make a second concentric ring, from which the third arises around a moderate intervening gap.
In other words, the sections of helices of the solenoid produce an accelerated motion of the projectile by acting successively on it, after a principle involved in the construction of electro-magnetic rock drills and dispatch tubes.
One of two twins starts to Arcturus at birth, that is, with accelerated motion in a gravitational field, and, on returning, discovers that he is much younger than his brother.