单词 | accelerate |
释义 | accelerate /ək-selˈə-rāt/transitive verb
To become faster ORIGIN: L accelerāre, -ātum, from ad to, and celer swift accelˈerant noun An accelerating agent (also adjective) accelerāˈtion noun
accelˈerative adjective Quickening accelˈerātor noun Any person or thing that accelerates, esp a substance that accelerates chemical action, a nerve or muscle that increases rate of action, an apparatus or device for increasing the speed of a machine, computer, etc, or one for imparting high energies to atomic particles. Devices for accelerating charged particles include the cyclotron type (for accelerating the heavier particles, such as protons; used in the treatment of cancer), and modifications of this, such as the synchrocyclotron type and the synchrotron type (for accelerating electrons). Other types of accelerators are the proton synchrotron (of which examples are the cosmotron and the bevatron), the betatron (for accelerating electrons; used in medicine and industry), linear accelerators and electron ring accelerators accelˈeratory adjective acceleromˈeter noun An instrument for measuring acceleration of aircraft, etc accelerated aging test noun (elec eng) A test for the stability of cables, using twice the normal voltage accelerated fatigue tests plural noun (engineering) The repeated application to a machine or component of simulated operating loads to determine its safe fatigue life before it is reached in service acceleration principle or accelerator principle noun In Keynesian economic analysis, the relationship between a sustained rise in the sales of an item and the increase in the ordering by firms of the extra factory equipment made necessary by the increased output accelerator board or accelerator card noun (computing) An additional circuit board to speed up some aspect of the operation of a computer |
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