Accelerated
[ək'seləreɪtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) speeded up, as of an academic course; 'in an accelerated program in school' .
Typist: Melba--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Accelerate
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Examples
- A characteristic trend of the present age is toward increased speed in everything, and the most conspicuous example of accelerated speed in late years is the bicycle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The talk took refuge in less ominous topics; but everything they touched on seemed to confirm Mrs. Archer's sense of an accelerated trend. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We were crossing to the former place, when I found that my aunt greatly accelerated her speed, and looked frightened. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This caused the enemy to evacuate their position, which was possibly accelerated by the expedition of Hovey and Washburn. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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