acceleration

• alacrity
• celerity
• clip
• dispatch
• drive
• expedition
• expeditiousness
• fastness
• fleetness
• gait
• haste
• hastening
• hastiness
• hurry
• hurrying
• hustle
• pace
• precipitation
• precipitousness
• promptitude
• promptness
• quickening
• quickness
• rapidity
• rapidness
• rate
• rush
• speed
• speediness
• speeding up
• spurring
• stepping up
• stimulation
• swiftness
• tempo
• velocity
• warp speed

• deceleration
• deferral
• deliberateness
• deliberation
• dilatoriness
• hindrance
• languidness
• languor
• lateness
• leisureliness
• lethargy
• pokiness
• procrastination
• reluctance
• retardation
• slowing
• slowing down
• slowness
• sluggishness
• torpidity
• torpor

• noun
  1. The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
  2. The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
  3. The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
  4. The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.

• The acceleration of the car was impressive during the race.
• Scientists studied the acceleration of particles in the collider.
• The coach emphasized the importance of acceleration in sprinting.
• We measured the acceleration of the vehicle during the test drive.
• Climate change has led to an acceleration of environmental issues.

pace

quickening

warp speed

waxing

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