Accelerate
verb
To increase speed or make something happen faster.
She accelerated and the car moved forward.
Often appears as...
- accelerate growth
- accelerate development
verb
To cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc.
The use of fertilizers can accelerate the growth of plants.
Often appears as...
- accelerate change
- accelerate momentum
verb
In physics, to change the velocity of.
Gravity will accelerate the object towards the ground.
Often appears as...
- accelerate particles
- accelerate electrons
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Technical
verb
To increase speed or make something happen faster.
She accelerated and the car moved forward.
Often appears as...
- accelerate growth
- accelerate development
verb
To cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc.
The use of fertilizers can accelerate the growth of plants.
Often appears as...
- accelerate change
- accelerate momentum
verb
In physics, to change the velocity of.
Gravity will accelerate the object towards the ground.
Often appears as...
- accelerate particles
- accelerate electrons
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Urgency Expression
Used to express the need to hurry or increase speed in actions or processes.
We need to accelerate our efforts to meet the deadline.
Pro Tip 2/2Timely Completion
Implies an action is done faster for timely achievement or completion.
To finish the project on time, we must accelerate our pace.
Pro Tip 1/2Urgency Expression
Used to express the need to hurry or increase speed in actions or processes.
We need to accelerate our efforts to meet the deadline.
Pro Tip 2/2Timely Completion
Implies an action is done faster for timely achievement or completion.
To finish the project on time, we must accelerate our pace.
Pro Tip 1/2Urgency Expression
Used to express the need to hurry or increase speed in actions or processes.
We need to accelerate our efforts to meet the deadline.
Pro Tip 2/2Timely Completion
Implies an action is done faster for timely achievement or completion.
To finish the project on time, we must accelerate our pace.
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common.
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How does your smartphone...
you wouldn't accelerate in a linear fashion. Instead, you would instantaneously jump, or transition, from one speed to the next. For an atom, when a transition occurs from one energy level to another, quantum mechanics says that the energy difference is equal to a characteristic frequency,
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How many universes are...
at an accelerating pace. The vast majority of the galaxies are separating from us so fast that light from them may never reach us. Still, our physical reality here on Earth is intimately connected to those distant, invisible galaxies. We can think of them as part of our universe.
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Could we survive...
But natural adaptation for entire human populations could take tens of thousands of years. Recent scientific advances may help us accelerate human adaptation to single generations. To thrive as a species during space travel, we could potentially develop methods
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Questions No One Knows...
If just a few of them had spawned intelligent life and started creating technologies, those technologies would have had millions of years to grow in complexity and power. On Earth, we've seen how dramatically technology can accelerate
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Why do our bodies age? -...
like Alzheimer's, which accelerate aging. Even if we could avoid all these harmful genetic alterations, not even our own cells could save us. The fact remains that cellular regeneration, the very stuff of life, declines as we age.
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How to rebuild the world...
navigate some kind of shortcut route for the most important scientific discoveries and technologies and so accelerate the rebooting of civilization well before we go any further let me be absolutely clear I do not actually
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.
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Squeaky Toy Trauma PIPE Dog...
I felt a lot of tension in her back so that's when I said okay we need the help of something they can accelerate this release of energy a little quicker than a massage you think we can get a
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Albatrosses Use Their...
then turning sharply it plunges down into the slower air gravity has helped it accelerate to 120 kilometers per hour
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common.
Video examples
How does your smartphone...
you wouldn't accelerate in a linear fashion. Instead, you would instantaneously jump, or transition, from one speed to the next. For an atom, when a transition occurs from one energy level to another, quantum mechanics says that the energy difference is equal to a characteristic frequency,
Video examples
How many universes are...
at an accelerating pace. The vast majority of the galaxies are separating from us so fast that light from them may never reach us. Still, our physical reality here on Earth is intimately connected to those distant, invisible galaxies. We can think of them as part of our universe.
Video examples
Could we survive...
But natural adaptation for entire human populations could take tens of thousands of years. Recent scientific advances may help us accelerate human adaptation to single generations. To thrive as a species during space travel, we could potentially develop methods
Video examples
Questions No One Knows...
If just a few of them had spawned intelligent life and started creating technologies, those technologies would have had millions of years to grow in complexity and power. On Earth, we've seen how dramatically technology can accelerate
Video examples
Why do our bodies age? -...
like Alzheimer's, which accelerate aging. Even if we could avoid all these harmful genetic alterations, not even our own cells could save us. The fact remains that cellular regeneration, the very stuff of life, declines as we age.
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
navigate some kind of shortcut route for the most important scientific discoveries and technologies and so accelerate the rebooting of civilization well before we go any further let me be absolutely clear I do not actually
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.
Video examples
Squeaky Toy Trauma PIPE Dog...
I felt a lot of tension in her back so that's when I said okay we need the help of something they can accelerate this release of energy a little quicker than a massage you think we can get a
Video examples
Albatrosses Use Their...
then turning sharply it plunges down into the slower air gravity has helped it accelerate to 120 kilometers per hour
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Mike McGavick
American Businessman
There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
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Anne M. Mulcahy
American Businesswoman
Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
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Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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Guilherme Leal
Brazilian Businessman
Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
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Pico Iyer
Indian Writer
All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
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Steve Case
American Businessman
Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
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Joe Lonsdale
American Businessman
The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.
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Kathy Giusti
American Activist
The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.
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John Oates
American Musician
The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
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Mike McGavick
American Businessman
There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
Quote examples
Anne M. Mulcahy
American Businesswoman
Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
Quote examples
Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
Quote examples
Guilherme Leal
Brazilian Businessman
Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
Quote examples
Pico Iyer
Indian Writer
All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Quote examples
Steve Case
American Businessman
Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
Quote examples
Joe Lonsdale
American Businessman
The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.
Quote examples
Kathy Giusti
American Activist
The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.
Quote examples
John Oates
American Musician
The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
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