Moving or progressing faster than is usual. / Happening sooner than expected.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accelerate

plural of acceleration

plural of accelerant

Able to be given increased speed; able to be accelerated.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by acceleration

plural of accelerating

A device that accelerates electrically charged particles to extremely high speeds, for the purpose of inducing high energy reactions or producing high energy radiation.

(physics) A particle accelerator that uses plasma as the medium of the accelerating field instead of a vacuum, to obtain a larger accelerating gradient.

(computing) A keyboard shortcut.