acceleration

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• CMU ARPABET: AE2 K S EH2 L ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *kel-der. Latin celer Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin celerō Latin accelerō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accelerātiōder. English acceleration First attested in 1531. From French accélération or more likely directly from Latin accelerātiō (“a hastening, acceleration”). Equivalent to accelerate + -ion.

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: արագացում (aragacʻum) — act or state
• Belarusian: паскарэ́нне (paskarénnje) — act or state
• Bulgarian: ускоря́ване (uskorjávane) — act or state
• Bulgarian: акселера́ция (akselerácija) — act or state
• Bulgarian: ускоре́ние (uskorénie) — act or state
• Catalan: acceleració — act or state
• Chinese Mandarin: 加速 (jiāsù) — act or state
• Czech: zrychlení — act or state
• Danish: acceleration — act or state
• Dutch: versnelling — act or state
• Dutch: acceleratie — act or state
• Esperanto: akcelo — act or state
• Finnish: kiihdytys — act or state
• French: accélération — act or state
• Galician: aceleración — act or state
• German: Beschleunigung — act or state
• German: Akzeleration — act or state
• Greek: επιτάχυνση (epitáchynsi) — act or state
• Hebrew: האצה (he'atza) — act or state
• Hungarian: gyorsulás — act or state
• Interlingua: acceleration — act or state
• Italian: accelerazione — act or state
• Japanese: 加速 (kasoku) — act or state
• Korean: 가속 (gasok) — act or state
• Latin: accelerātiō — act or state
• Lithuanian: pagreitis — act or state
• Luxembourgish: Acceleratioun — act or state
• Macedonian: забрзување (zabrzuvanje) — act or state
• Malayalam: ത്വരണം (tvaraṇaṁ) — act or state
• Norwegian Bokmål: akselerasjon — act or state
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akselerasjon — act or state
• Persian: شتاب (šetâb) — act or state
• Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭠𐭯𐭮𐭭𐭭 — act or state
• Polish: przyspieszenie — act or state
• Polish: akceleracja — act or state
• Portuguese: aceleração — act or state
• Romanian: accelerație — act or state
• Romanian: accelerare — act or state
• Russian: ускоре́ние (uskorénije) — act or state
• Russian: разго́н (razgón) — act or state
• Serbo-Croatian: akcelerácija — act or state
• Serbo-Croatian: ubrzánje — act or state
• Spanish: aceleración — act or state
• Spanish: aceleramiento — act or state
• Spanish: acceleración — act or state
• Swahili: mchapuko — act or state
• Swedish: acceleration — act or state
• Tagalog: darasig — act or state
• Ukrainian: приско́рення (pryskórennja) — act or state
• Venetan: acelerasion — act or state
• Armenian: արագացում (aragacʻum) — amount
• Bulgarian: ускоре́ние (uskorénie) — amount
• Catalan: acceleració — amount
• Chinese Mandarin: 加速度 (jiāsùdù) — amount
• Czech: zrychlení — amount
• Dutch: versnelling — amount
• Dutch: acceleratie — amount
• Esperanto: akcelo — amount
• Finnish: kiihtyvyys — amount
• French: accélération — amount
• German: Beschleunigung — amount
• German: Akzeleration — amount
• Greek: επιτάχυνση (epitáchynsi) — amount
• Hebrew: תאוצה (teutza) — amount
• Italian: accelerazione — amount
• Japanese: 加速度 (kasokudo) — amount
• Malay: pecutan — amount
• Polish: przyspieszenie — amount
• Portuguese: aceleração — amount
• Russian: ускоре́ние (uskorénije) — amount
• Serbo-Croatian: akcelerácija — amount
• Serbo-Croatian: ubrzánje — amount
• Swedish: acceleration — amount
• Tagalog: darasig — amount
• Afrikaans: versnelling — change of velocity with respect to time
• Amharic: ፍጥንጥነት (fəṭnəṭnät) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Arabic: تَسَارُع (tasāruʕ) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Aragonese: aceleración — change of velocity with respect to time
• Armenian: արագացում (aragacʻum) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Assamese: ত্বৰণ (toron) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Asturian: aceleración — change of velocity with respect to time
• Azerbaijani: təcil — change of velocity with respect to time
• Bashkir: тиҙләнеш (tiźləneş) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Basque: azelerazio — change of velocity with respect to time
• Belarusian: паскарэнне (paskarennje) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Bengali: ত্বরণ (toron) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Bulgarian: ускоре́ние (uskorénie) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Burmese: အရှိန် (a.hrin) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Catalan: acceleració — change of velocity with respect to time
• Cebuano: pagpatulin — change of velocity with respect to time
• Chinese Mandarin: 加速度 (jiāsùdù) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Czech: zrychlení — change of velocity with respect to time
• Czech: akcelerace — change of velocity with respect to time
• Danish: acceleration — change of velocity with respect to time
• Dutch: versnelling — change of velocity with respect to time
• Dutch: acceleratie — change of velocity with respect to time
• Esperanto: akcelo — change of velocity with respect to time
• Estonian: kiirendus — change of velocity with respect to time
• Finnish: kiihtyvyys — change of velocity with respect to time
• French: accélération — change of velocity with respect to time
• West-Frisian: fersnelling — change of velocity with respect to time
• Galician: aceleración — change of velocity with respect to time
• Georgian: აჩქარება (ačkareba) — change of velocity with respect to time
• German: Beschleunigung — change of velocity with respect to time
• German: Akzeleration — change of velocity with respect to time
• Greek: επιτάχυνση (epitáchynsi) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Haitian Creole: akselerasyon — change of velocity with respect to time
• Hebrew: תאוצה — change of velocity with respect to time
• Hindi: त्वरण (tvaraṇ) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Hungarian: gyorsulás — change of velocity with respect to time
• Icelandic: hröðun — change of velocity with respect to time
• Indonesian: percepatan — change of velocity with respect to time
• Indonesian: akselerasi — change of velocity with respect to time
• Irish: luasghéarú — change of velocity with respect to time
• Italian: accelerazione — change of velocity with respect to time
• Japanese: 加速度 (kasokudo) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Karachay-Balkar: терклениу (terkleniu) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Kazakh: үдеу (üdeu) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Khmer: សំទុះ (sɑmtuh) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Korean: 가속도 (gasokdo) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Latin: acceleratio — change of velocity with respect to time
• Latvian: paātrinājums — change of velocity with respect to time
• Lithuanian: pagreitis — change of velocity with respect to time
• Macedonian: забрзување (zabrzuvanje) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Malay: pemecutan — change of velocity with respect to time
• Malayalam: ത്വരണം (tvaraṇaṁ) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Manx: bieauaghey — change of velocity with respect to time
• Marathi: त्वरण (tvaraṇ) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Mongolian: хурдатгал (xurdatgal) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Neapolitan: accëllërazion — change of velocity with respect to time
• Nepali: प्रवेग (praveg) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Newar: प्रवेग (prawega) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Norwegian Bokmål: akselerasjon — change of velocity with respect to time
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akselerasjon — change of velocity with respect to time
• Occitan: acceleracion — change of velocity with respect to time
• Persian: شتاب (šetâb) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Polish: przyspieszenie — change of velocity with respect to time
• Portuguese: aceleração — change of velocity with respect to time
• Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਵੇਗ (prveg) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Romanian: accelerație — change of velocity with respect to time
• Russian: ускоре́ние (uskorénije) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Serbo-Croatian: akcelerácija — change of velocity with respect to time
• Serbo-Croatian: ubrzánje — change of velocity with respect to time
• Serbo-Croatian: акцелерација — change of velocity with respect to time
• Sicilian: accilirazzioni — change of velocity with respect to time
• Silesian: szwůng — change of velocity with respect to time
• Sinhalese: ත්වරණය (twaraṇaya) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Slovak: zrýchlenie — change of velocity with respect to time
• Slovene: pospešek — change of velocity with respect to time
• Spanish: aceleración — change of velocity with respect to time
• Spanish: acceleración — change of velocity with respect to time
• Sundanese: percepetan — change of velocity with respect to time
• Sundanese: akselerasi — change of velocity with respect to time
• Swedish: acceleration — change of velocity with respect to time
• Tagalog: darasig — change of velocity with respect to time
• Tagalog: akselerasyon — change of velocity with respect to time
• Tamil: முடுக்கம் (muṭukkam) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Tatar: тизләнеш (tizläneş) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Telugu: త్వరణము (tvaraṇamu) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Thai: ความเร่ง (kwaam-rêng) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Turkish: ivme — change of velocity with respect to time
• Turkish: hızlanma — change of velocity with respect to time
• Ukrainian: прискорення (pryskorennja) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Urdu: اسراع (israa) — change of velocity with respect to time
• Uzbek: tezlanish — change of velocity with respect to time
• Venetan: acelerasion — change of velocity with respect to time
• Vietnamese: gia tốc — change of velocity with respect to time
• Welsh: cyflymiad — change of velocity with respect to time
• Polish: akceleracja — education