acceleration

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. an increase in rate of change (Freq. 2)
- modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change
• Ant:
deceleration
• Derivationally related forms:
accelerate
• Hypernyms:
change, alteration, modification
• Hyponyms:
pickup, getaway, precipitation
2. the act of accelerating;
increasing the speed (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
quickening, speedup
• Ant:
deceleration
• Derivationally related forms:
speed up (for: speedup), quicken (for: quickening), accelerate
• Hypernyms:
speed, speeding, hurrying
3. (physics) a rate of increase of velocity (Freq. 1)
• Ant:
deceleration
• Topics:
physics, natural philosophy
• Hypernyms:
rate
• Hyponyms:
angular acceleration, centripetal acceleration

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  quickening, speedup
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  deceleration, slowing, retardation