1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Acceleration

ACCELERATION (from Lat. accelerare, to hasten, celer, quick), hastening or quickening; in mechanics, a term employed to denote the rate at which the velocity of a body, whose motion is not uniform, either increases or decreases. (See Mechanics and Hodograph.)

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