accelerant
noun/əkˈsɛləɹ(ə)nt/UK/əkˈsɛləɹənt/US
Etymology
From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with senses of being prone or tending to do the actions of verbs).
- learned borrowing from accelerātus
Definitions
Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an…
Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
- Accelerant was poured across the beds where the two daughters of a family in Cheshire, Conn., had been tied before a fire during a home invasion in 2007, a fire investigator told jurors on Friday.
Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
- Hello Neighbor’s experience reflects the rise of video sites like YouTube as an accelerant for the video game business.
- [Mike] Skinner can be credited with pouring lots of accelerant on pop in his time. In his absence, Caribbean-derived UK bass music became the de facto sound of British youth.
Causing acceleration or speeding up
Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.
The neighborhood
- neighboraccelerate
- neighboraccelerated
- neighboraccelerating
- neighboracceleration
- neighboraccelerator
- neighbornonaccelerated
- neighbornonaccelerating
- neighborunaccelerate
- neighborunaccelerated
- neighborunaccelerating
- neighborcatalyst
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for accelerant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA