Word Meanings - ACCELERANDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gradually accelerating the movement.

Related words: (words related to ACCELERANDO)

• ACCELERATOR
  One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
• ACCELERATE
  1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard. 2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc. 3. To hasten,
• GRADUALLY
  1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• ACCELERATIVE
  Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.
• ACCELERATION
  The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual
• ACCELERATORY
  Accelerative.
• COUNTERMOVE; COUNTERMOVEMENT
  A movement in opposition to another.