Definition of Accelerate

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Accelerate

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.

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Accelerate Quotations

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
Bob Graham

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
Peter DeFazio

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Patrice Leconte

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
Johann Most

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
Thomas Dolby

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
Howard Coble

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.
John McKinley

Accelerate Translations

accelerate in Dutch is verhaasten, bespoedigen, accelereren
accelerate in German is zunehmen
accelerate in Italian is accelerare
accelerate in Latin is accelero
accelerate in Portuguese is acelere
accelerate in Spanish is acelerar
accelerate in Swedish is accelerera

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