accelerator

  • 1Accelerator — 一方通行 Sexo Masculino Edad 16 años To Aru Majutsu no Index Nombre real Desconocido …

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  • 2Accelerator — may mean:*Accelerator (car) (also gas pedal ), that controls the engine speed of an automobile *accelerator (chemistry), a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction *Accelerator (computing) to speed a function in computer hardware… …

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  • 3accelerator — ac‧cel‧e‧ra‧tor [əkˈseləreɪtə ǁ ər] noun [singular] ECONOMICS 1. the principle that when demand for goods rises and falls, investment rises and falls by even larger amounts 2. when a government uses the accelerator, it encourages demand as a way… …

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  • 4accelerator — ACCELERATÓR, OÁRE, acceleratori, oare, adj. subst. 1. adj. Care accelerează. 2. s.n. Mecanism care permite accelerarea turaţiilor unui motor; pedală care comandă acest mecanism. ♦ Instalaţie pentru accelerarea microparticulelor. 3. s.m., adj.… …

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  • 5Accelerator — Ac*cel er*a tor, n. One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 6accelerator — (n.) 1610s, from L. accelerator, agent noun from accelerare (see ACCELERATE (Cf. accelerate)). Motor vehicle sense is from 1900 …

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  • 7accelerator — [ak sel′ər āt΄ər, ak sel′ə rāt΄ər; əksel′ər āt΄ər, əksel′ə rāt΄ər] n. 1. a person or thing that accelerates or increases the speed of something; specif., a) a device, such as the foot throttle of an automobile, for increasing the speed of a… …

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  • 8accelerator — ► NOUN 1) a foot pedal which controls the speed of a vehicle s engine. 2) Physics an apparatus for accelerating charged particles to high velocities. 3) a substance that speeds up a chemical process …

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  • 9accelerator — /ak sel euh ray teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that accelerates. 2. Auto. a device, usually operated by the foot, for controlling the speed of an engine. 3. Brit. any two or three wheeled motor vehicle, as a motorcycle or motor scooter. 4.… …

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  • 10accelerator — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gas pedal, throttle. See vehicle, velocity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. atomic accelerator, particle accelerator, atom smasher. Types of (particle) accelerators include: Bevatron, Cosmotron, cyclotron,… …

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