Moving or progressing faster than is usual. / Happening sooner than expected.

An act of acceleration.

present participle of accelerate

simple past tense and past participle of accelerate

plural of acceleration

plural of accelerating

Of, pertaining to, or caused by acceleration

A device that accelerates electrically charged particles to extremely high speeds, for the purpose of inducing high energy reactions or producing high energy radiation.

(physics) A particle accelerator that uses plasma as the medium of the accelerating field instead of a vacuum, to obtain a larger accelerating gradient.

(computing) A keyboard shortcut.