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- 1. a vehicle's capacity to gain speed: "the three-litre model has spectacular acceleration" Similar Opposite
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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, the study of motion. Accelerations are vector quantities (in that they have magnitude and direction). The orientation of an object's acceleration is given by the orientation of the net force acting on that object. The magnitude of an object's ... Wikipedia