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Definition: Accelerating |
AcceleratingAdjective1. Increasing in speed; becoming progressively faster; "the accelerating inflation was cause for great concern". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accelerating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | The process of running a machine up to speed after breakaway. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Accelerating |
| English words defined with "accelerating": acceleration ♦ Cockcroft and Walton accelerator, Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier ♦ Principle of vis viva ♦ quickening ♦ releasing factor, releasing hormone, RF ♦ snowball, speedup, stimulative, synchrocyclotron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "accelerating": basic oxygen process ♦ centrifugal clutch, Cyclotrons ♦ dee, de-ionizing grid ♦ electrical engine, Electron Cyclotron Heating, Entrance Region ♦ foot-to-head acceleration ♦ inertial force, Ion diode ♦ minus g ♦ negative g ♦ physiological acceleration, Plant regulator ♦ secular carbon dioxide trend, Synchrotrons ♦ transient mode ♦ Use the Source Luke, UTSL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "accelerating": Accelerate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Accelerating" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (accelerando). |
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Health | There has been great progress in the last decade and the rate of research progress is accelerating. (references) | |
They also are the most extensively studied antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal maturation. (references) | ||
As perimenopause progresses, your ovaries begin to shrink and follicles disappear at an accelerating rate. Hormone levels fluctuate as your ovaries attempt to maintain their former level of hormone production. (references) | ||
Business | Although some structural problems still hinder the full evolution of the Italian ICT market, the growth of the ICT sector there is accelerating, following the pattern of other countries in Europe. (references) | |
The market for Internet and related services boomed in 1999, and both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer e-commerce applications took off. E-commerce is expected to become one of the most dynamic and fastest growing segments in the next three years, thanks to improved access infrastructure and to new Italian government plans for accelerating ICT acceptance and e-commerce adoption. (references) | ||
Economic History | Georgia | However, privatization of the energy sector is accelerating. (references) |
Guatemala | Most of Guatemala's population is rural, though urbanization is accelerating. (references) | |
Japan | Corporate restructuring is accelerating, and companies are rushing to reduce pension under-funding. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | During the year, former Justice Minister Saakashvili attempted to address overcrowding in the country's prisons by accelerating the construction of a new prison facility in Rustavi near Tbilisi. (references) |
Political Economy | TURKEY | Government control of key retail prices, especially in the energy and utilities sectors, contributes to market distortion, as prices are sometimes manipulated to meet political objectives, held in check before elections and accelerating after. (references) |
JAMAICA | The Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC), a government agency established in February 1997 to provide funding and to reorganize illiquid financial institutions, has completed its intervention and rehabilitation phase and is now accelerating the divestment of assets. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | Tighter competition ensued from Finland's EU entry, accelerating cost cutting in the sector. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Anecdotal reports from those doing business in Uzbekistan indicate that the decree has succeeded in accelerating the clearance of pre-inspected goods. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Packing List: Packing list is not legally required but such lists are usually considered essential in accelerating the time required for customs clearance. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Posterity may have cause to regret if from any motive intervals of tranquility are left unimproved for accelerating this valuable end. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I warn the Congress and the Nation tonight that this failure to act on the tax bill will sweep us into an accelerating spiral of price increases, a slump in homebuilding, and a continuing erosion of the American dollar. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are greatly accelerating our ability to reinforce Western Europe with massive ground and air forces in a crisis. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Accelerating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 78.43% of the time. "Accelerating" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 78.43% | 160 | 24,760 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.08% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 204 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accelerating": accelerating electrode ♦ Accelerating force ♦ accelerating grid. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "accelerating": non-accelerating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the accelerating universe | 6 |
accelerating cognitive development | 3 |
accelerating cipd course learning uk | 2 |
accelerating cipd course learning | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accelerating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | ускоряващ (accelerative), сила на ускорението. (various references) | |
Chinese | 速 (Accelerate, Accelerated, Expedite, Expedited, Expediting, Sped, Speeded, speeding). (various references) | |
Danish | accelerering. (various references) | |
Dutch | versnellen (accelerate, advance, pick up, speed up). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiihdytys (boost, rocket propulsion). (various references) | |
French | accélération (acceleration), accélérant. (various references) | |
German | beschleunigend (hastening, quickening, snowballing). (various references) | |
Greek | που επιταχύνει (speeding up), επιτάχυνση (acceleration, pickup, speed up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזרז (catalytic), מ"רבן (pushing, stimulant, stimulating). (various references) | |
Italian | accelerazione (acceleration), accelerativo (accelerative, hastening, snowballing), accelerando (accelerando, acceleratingly). (various references) | |
Korean | 가속. (various references) | |
Manx | siyree. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acceleratingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acelerador (accelerator, accelerator pedal), aceleração (momentum, pickup, racing, speed-up). (various references) | |
Romanian | accelerator (accelerative, accelerator), care accelereazã. (various references) | |
Russian | ускорять ускоряющий (expediting). (various references) | |
Spanish | acelerando, acelerador (accelerator, accelerator pedal, throttle), aceleración (acceleration, pickup, quickness, speed up). (various references) | |
Swedish | accelererande. (various references) | |
Turkish | artan (growing, leftover, odd, remaining, residual, residuary, surplus, surplusage, upgrade), hızlandırıcı (accelerator, speeder), hızlanan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що прискорю". (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m nhanh thêm gia tốc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accelerating": acceleratingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "accelerating": reaccelerating. (additional references) | |
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"Accelerating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accellerating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accelerating" (pronounced akse"lerā'ting) |
| 8 | -s e" l er ā' t i ng | decelerating. |
| 6 | -l er ā' t i ng | exhilarating, tolerating. |
| 5 | -er ā' t i ng | collaborating, commemorating, cooperating, corroborating, decorating, degenerating, deliberating, deteriorating, elaborating, evaporating, exaggerating, exasperating, exonerating, generating, inaugurating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, invigorating, liberating, moderating, nonoperating, obliterating, operating, proliferating, recuperating, redecorating, regenerating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, reverberating, saturating, separating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accentuating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, coordinating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decimating, dedicating, delegating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, exacerbating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, incapacitating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, obviating, officiating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, reevaluating, regulating, rehabilitating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, rotating, salivating, segregating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: accelerant, lacerating. | |
-3 letters: accreting, analgetic, antiglare, cartilage, clearance, clientage, genetical, interlace, reactance, rectangle. | |
-4 letters: acentric, acierate, aerating, agenetic, agential, alerting, algerine, alginate, alienage, alienate, altering, analcite, angelica, antalgic, argental, argentic, calcanei, calceate, canceler, canticle, carageen, carcanet, carinate, catering, celeriac, centiare, cetacean, clarence, clarinet, clearing, cleating, craaling, craniate, creatine, creating, creeling, elaterin, electing, electric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+2 letters: acceleratingly, reaccelerating. | |
+5 letters: catecholaminergic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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