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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
First attested in 1531. From French accélération or more likely directly from Latin accelerātiō (“a hastening, acceleration”). Equivalent to accelerate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- enPR: əksĕlərā'shən, IPA(key): /ək.ˌsɛl.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /æk.ˌsɛl.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ɪk.ˌsɛl.ə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
acceleration (countable and uncountable, plural accelerations)
- (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.
- (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
1859-1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilisation:A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration […]
- (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
- The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
Usage notes
Acceleration in SI units is measured in metres per second per second (m/s2), or in imperial units in feet per second per second (ft/s2).
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Translations
(physics)
- Afrikaans: versnelling
- Amharic: ፍጥንጥነት f (fəṭnəṭnät)
- Arabic: تَسَارُع m (tasāruʕ)
- Aragonese: aceleración f
- Armenian: արագացում (hy) (aragacʻum)
- Assamese: ত্বৰণ (toron)
- Asturian: aceleración f
- Azerbaijani: təcil
- Bashkir: тиҙләнеш (tiźləneş)
- Basque: azelerazio
- Belarusian: паскарэнне n (paskarennje)
- Bengali: ত্বরণ (bn) (toron)
- Bulgarian: ускоре́ние (bg) n (uskorénie)
- Burmese: အရှိန် (my) f (a.hrin)
- Catalan: acceleració (ca) f
- Cebuano: pagpatulin
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 加速度 (zh) (jiāsùdù)
- Czech: zrychlení n, akcelerace (cs) f
- Danish: acceleration c
- Dutch: versnelling (nl) f, acceleratie (nl) f
- Esperanto: akcelo
- Estonian: kiirendus
- Finnish: kiihtyvyys (fi)
- French: accélération (fr) f
- Galician: aceleración (gl) f
- Georgian: აჩქარება (ačkareba)
- German: Beschleunigung (de) f
- Greek: επιτάχυνση (el) f (epitáchynsi)
- Haitian Creole: akselerasyon
- Hebrew: תאוצה (he) f
- Hindi: त्वरण (hi) (tvaraṇ)
- Hungarian: gyorsulás (hu)
- Icelandic: hröðun
- Indonesian: percepatan (id), akselerasi (id)
- Irish: luasghéarú
- Italian: accelerazione (it) f
- Japanese: 加速度 (ja) (kasokudo)
- Karachay-Balkar: терклениу (terkleniu)
- Kazakh: үдеу (kk) (üdeu)
- Khmer: សំទុះ (km) (sɑmtuh)
- Korean: 가속도 (ko) (gasokdo)
- Latin: acceleratio f
- Latvian: paātrinājums m
- Lithuanian: pagreitis m
- Macedonian: забрзување n (zabrzuvanje)
- Malay: pemecutan
- Malayalam: ത്വരണം (ml) (tvaraṇaṁ)
- Manx: bieauaghey
- Marathi: त्वरण (tvaraṇ)
- Mongolian: хурдатгал (mn) (xurdatgal)
- Neapolitan: accëllërazion f
- Nepali: प्रवेग (ne) m (praveg)
- Newar: प्रवेग (prawega)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akselerasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk: akselerasjon m
- Occitan: acceleracion f
- Persian: شتاب (fa) (šetâb)
- Polish: przyspieszenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: aceleração (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਵੇਗ (prveg)
- Romanian: accelerație (ro) f
- Russian: ускоре́ние (ru) n (uskorénije)
- Serbo-Croatian: akcelerácija (sh) f, ubrzánje (sh) n, акцелерација f
- Sicilian: accilirazzioni f
- Silesian: szwůng m
- Sinhalese: ත්වරණය (si) (twaraṇaya)
- Slovak: zrýchlenie n
- Slovene: pospešek (sl) m, pospešek (sl) m
- Spanish: aceleración (es) f
- Sundanese: percepetan, akselerasi
- Swedish: acceleration (sv) c
- Tagalog: darasig, akselerasyon
- Tamil: முடுக்கம் (ta) (muṭukkam)
- Tatar: тизләнеш (tt) (tizläneş)
- Telugu: త్వరణము (te) (tvaraṇamu)
- Thai: ความเร่ง (th) (kwaam-rêng)
- Turkish: ivme (tr), hızlanma (tr), hızlanma (tr)
- Ukrainian: прискорення (uk) n (pryskorennja)
- Urdu: اسراع m (israa)
- Uzbek: tezlanish
- Venetian: acelerasion f
- Vietnamese: gia tốc (vi)
- Welsh: cyflymiad
- West Frisian: fersnelling
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See also
References
- ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 6
Danish
Noun
acceleration c (singular definite accelerationen, plural indefinite accelerationer)
- acceleration
Declension
Declension of acceleration
Further reading
Interlingua
Noun
acceleration (plural accelerationes)
- acceleration
Swedish
Etymology
accelerera + -tion
Noun
acceleration c
- acceleration; a change in velocity
Declension