In mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time. Acceleration is one of several components of kinematics...

Look up acceleration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acceleration, in physics, is the rate at which the velocity of a body changes over time. Acceleration...

Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of...

In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the...

confused with "g", the symbol for grams). It is used for sustained accelerations that cause a perception of weight. For example, an object at rest on...

(NHTSA), after reports that several vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion...

of relativity, four-acceleration is a four-vector (vector in four-dimensional spacetime) that is analogous to classical acceleration (a three-dimensional...

Academic acceleration is moving students through an educational program at a rate faster or at an age younger than is typical. Students who would benefit...

Acceleration is defined in law as a shortening of the time period in which something is to take place. The concept of acceleration most often arises within...

allows for several ways to define the acceleration of a body.[citation needed] The usual definition of acceleration entails following a single particle/point...

Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...

Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon) and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth)...

In physics, angular acceleration (symbol α, alpha) is the time rate of change of angular velocity. Following the two types of angular velocity, spin angular...

proper acceleration is the physical acceleration (i.e., measurable acceleration as by an accelerometer) experienced by an object. It is thus acceleration relative...

Plasma acceleration is a technique for accelerating charged particles, such as electrons or ions, using the electric field associated with an electron...

transformed to a rotating frame of reference, the Coriolis and centrifugal accelerations appear. When applied to objects with masses, the respective forces are...

Acceleration due to gravity, acceleration of gravity or gravitational acceleration may refer to: Gravitational acceleration, the acceleration caused by...

The Great Acceleration is the dramatic, continuous and roughly simultaneous surge across a large range of measures of human activity, first recorded in...

The gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution...

Social acceleration is a sociological concept of time in late modernity developed by German sociologist Hartmut Rosa. It was featured in his book Beschleunigung...

Fermi acceleration, sometimes referred to as diffusive shock acceleration (a subclass of Fermi acceleration), is the acceleration that charged particles...

of imitators: by 1995, all major PC graphics chip makers had added 2D acceleration support to their chips. Fixed-function Windows accelerators surpassed...

In mathematics, a series acceleration method is any one of a collection of sequence transformations for improving the rate of convergence of a series....

In mathematics, Anderson acceleration, also called Anderson mixing, is a method for the acceleration of the convergence rate of fixed-point iterations...

Accelerations in special relativity (SR) follow, as in Newtonian mechanics, by differentiation of velocity with respect to time. Because of the Lorentz...

The three-axis acceleration switch is a micromachined microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor that detects whether an acceleration event has exceeded...

Effective accelerationism (e/acc) is a 21st-century philosophical movement that advocates for an explicitly pro-technology stance. Its proponents believe...

accelerometer is a device that measures the proper acceleration of an object. Proper acceleration is the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of the object...

TLS acceleration (formerly known as SSL acceleration) is a method of offloading processor-intensive public-key encryption for Transport Layer Security...

Spectral acceleration (SA) is a unit measured in g (the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, equivalent to g-force) that describes the maximum acceleration in...