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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of to add
to the speed of -- opposed to {retard}.
2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process
of as to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase
of wealth, etc
3. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
accelerated
adj 1: caused to go more rapidly [syn: {speeded up}]
2: speeded up as of an academic course; "in an accelerated
program in school"
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