acceleration

Other forms of acceleration

plural

accelerations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acceleration

What does acceleration mean?

acceleration means "an increase in rate of change". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acceleration?

acceleration has 5 syllables: ac-cel-e-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌækˌsɛlɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for acceleration?

Close synonyms include quickening, speedup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of acceleration?

The recorded antonyms are deceleration, deceleration, deceleration.

Is acceleration a common word?

acceleration is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acceleration?

133 words rhyme with acceleration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.