ACCELERATED

accelerated

(adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course; “in an accelerated program in school”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

accelerated

simple past tense and past participle of accelerate

Adjective

accelerated (comparative more accelerated, superlative most accelerated)

Moving or progressing faster than is usual.

Happening sooner than expected.

Hyponyms

• hardware-accelerated

Source: Wiktionary


ACCELERATE

Ac*cel"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accelerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accelerating.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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