Synonyms for acceleration
ækˌsɛl əˈreɪ ʃənac·cel·er·a·tion

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1. accelerationnoun

   Antonyms:
   deceleration, retardation

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1. accelerationnoun

   an increase in rate of change

   "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change"

   Synonyms:
   speedup, quickening

   Antonyms:
   retardation, deceleration, slowing

2. acceleration, quickening, speedupnoun

   the act of accelerating; increasing the speed

   Synonyms:
   speedup, quickening

   Antonyms:
   deceleration, retardation, slowing

3. accelerationnoun

   (physics) a rate of increase of velocity

   Synonyms:
   speedup, quickening

   Antonyms:
   deceleration, retardation, slowing

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Physics
   • Rate
   • Speed

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1. accelerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   hastening, increase of velocity

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1. List of paraphrases for "acceleration":

   accelerating, accel, accelerated, accelerate, speeding-up, accelerator, expedite, expediting

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1. James Dondero:

   I don't know what (acceleration) gets you. I think you end up trying to grab assets that you can't get and you end up spending money on legal fees.

2. Mark Rowley:

   Some of the acceleration of technology, whether it's communications or other spheres, can be set up in different ways, it can be set up in a way which is friendly to terrorists and helps them ... and creates challenges for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Or it can be set up in a way which doesn't do that.

3. Giovanni Rezza:

   This acceleration was expected, unfortunately.

4. Paul Dales:

   The lack of a sustained acceleration in wage growth could prompt the Fed to keep pushing back the timing of the first rate hike.

5. Nicki Shields:

   The acceleration from 0-100 mph is completely bonkers, i've been in a lot of fast cars before but the EP9 is definitely the fastest.