Usually means: Increases speed over time continuously.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. accelerates: Merriam-Webster
  2. accelerates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. accelerates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Accelerates, accelerates: Wordnik
  5. accelerates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. accelerates: Wiktionary
  7. accelerates: Dictionary.com
  8. accelerates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. accelerates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. accelerates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. accelerates: Legal dictionary
  3. accelerates: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accelerates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See accelerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (accelerate)

verb:  (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
verb:  (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
verb:  (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
verb:  (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
verb:  (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
verb:  (intransitive) Grow; increase.
adjective:  (archaic) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
▸ Also see accelerate


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