Usually means: Reduction in speed or velocity.
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  3. deceleration: Collins English Dictionary
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  1. deceleration: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See decelerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deceleration)

noun:  (uncountable) The act or process of decelerating.
noun:  (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity), an acceleration having a negative numerical value.

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