acceleration
Babylon English English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
acceleration
n. increase of speed

Wikipedia English The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
Acceleration
In physics, acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time. In one dimension, acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down. For example, a car driving away (from standstill) is increasing its speed and is thus accelerating. Similarly, a car braking to stop in front of a traffic light is still said (in physics) to undergo acceleration, although now a negative one. In common speech, it is said to be decelerating.

See more at Wikipedia.org...


© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
WordNet 2.0 DictionaryDownload this dictionary
acceleration

Noun
1. an increase in speed; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change"
(antonym) deceleration, slowing, retardation
(hypernym) speed, swiftness, fastness
(hyponym) pickup, getaway
(derivation) accelerate, speed, speed up
2. the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
(synonym) quickening, speedup
(hypernym) speed, speeding, hurrying
(derivation) accelerate, speed, speed up
3. (physics) a rate of change of velocity
(hypernym) rate
(hyponym) centripetal acceleration
(classification) physics, physical science, natural philosophy


Babylon French English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
accélération
nf. acceleration; hurry, quickening, speed up, haste; expedition; hastiness

Babylon English-CzechDownload this dictionary
acceleration
n. zrychlení


| acceleration in French | acceleration in Italian | acceleration in Spanish | acceleration in Dutch | acceleration in Portuguese | acceleration in German | acceleration in Russian | acceleration in Japanese | acceleration in Greek | acceleration in Korean | acceleration in Turkish | acceleration in Hebrew | acceleration in Arabic | acceleration in Thai | acceleration in Polish | acceleration in Hungarian | acceleration in Czech | acceleration in Latvian | acceleration in Catalan | acceleration in Croatian | acceleration in Serbian | acceleration in Albanian | acceleration in Urdu | acceleration in Bulgarian | acceleration in Danish | acceleration in Finnish | acceleration in Norwegian | acceleration in Romanian | acceleration in Swedish | acceleration in Farsi | acceleration in Macedonian | acceleration in Hindi | acceleration in Indonesian | acceleration in Vietnamese | acceleration in Mongolian | acceleration in Malay