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accelerator

noun
/əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *kel-der. Latin celer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin celerō Latin accelerō Latin accelerātuslbor. ▲ Latin accelerō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accelerātiōder. English accelerationbf. English accelerate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English accelerator * First attested in 1611. * (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900. * accelerate + -or

  1. learned borrowing from accelerātus
  2. suffixed as accelerator — “accelerate + or”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, accelerates.

    • The Second World War is said to have been a great accelerator for many scientific findings.

  2. A device for causing acceleration.

  3. A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.

      • As soon as you get onto the slipway, push the accelerator.

    2. A chemical that reduces development time.

    3. A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles

      A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles; a particle accelerator.

    4. A muscle or nerve that speeds the performance of an action.

    5. An accelerator key.

      • If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.

    6. A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of…

      A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.

    7. A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.

    8. A mentoring program for startup companies.

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Derived

accelerator card, accelerator effect, accelerator key, other element, accelerator mass spectrometry, accelerator nerves, nerves that speed up a bodily function, accelerator pedal, a pedal used to control a vehicle's speed, antiaccelerator, cardioaccelerator, hit the accelerator, laser-plasma accelerator, particle accelerator, plasma accelerator, plasma wakefield accelerator, preaccelerator, a device that speeds up computer processing, a key which a user can press to activate a menu

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for accelerator. 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