Usually means: Change in velocity over time.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word acceleration:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceleration: Merriam-Webster
  2. acceleration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acceleration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acceleration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acceleration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acceleration, acceleration: Wordnik
  7. acceleration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acceleration: Wiktionary
  9. acceleration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acceleration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acceleration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acceleration: Dictionary.com
  13. acceleration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Acceleration (album), Acceleration (differential geometry), Acceleration (disambiguation), Acceleration (education), Acceleration (film), Acceleration (human development), Acceleration (law), Acceleration (special relativity), Acceleration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Acceleration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. acceleration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. acceleration: Rhymezone
  18. Acceleration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. acceleration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. acceleration: FreeDictionary.org
  21. acceleration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. acceleration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. acceleration: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. acceleration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. acceleration: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceleration: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. acceleration: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. acceleration: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. acceleration: Legal dictionary
  8. acceleration: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceleration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceleration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. acceleration: Medical dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Acceleration: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Acceleration: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Acceleration: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. acceleration: UNCChem Glossary
  8. ACCELERATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceleration: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. acceleration: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Acceleration: Building pathology glossary
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  6. ACCELERATION: Power Engineering

(Note: See accelerations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
noun:  (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
noun:  (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
noun:  The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.

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