How to Use acceleration in a Sentence

acceleration

noun
  • There has been an acceleration in economic growth.
  • There has been some acceleration in economic growth.
  • The car delivers quick acceleration.
  • Since the car stays on the ground, the acceleration in the vertical direction is zero.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
  • For this test flight, a full-size dummy in an orange flight suit will occupy the commander's seat, rigged with vibration and acceleration sensors.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
  • This drill helps improve acceleration and lateral movement.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • On more expensive bikes, the acceleration is smoother, the components are more functional, and the brakes are generally better.
    Will Taylor, Outside Online, 19 Aug. 2022
  • This sudden jolt and acceleration triggers an automatic lockdown that should prevent would-be thieves from accessing your precious data.
    PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Electric vehicles, Kuniskis said, have the potential to perform better than gas muscle cars with fast acceleration.
    Tom Krisher, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Electric vehicles, Kuniskis said, have the potential to perform better than gas muscle cars with faster acceleration.
    CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Then comes a period of rapid acceleration, where breakthroughs happen quickly and the technology begins to change industries.
    Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • On the flip side, acceleration could have the seat slam backward.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2023
  • That means there must be a force (F) in the direction of the acceleration.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • One manikin, Commander Moonikin Campos, will sit in a seat with sensors meant to record acceleration and vibration throughout the mission.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • In this reading, midlife is not the end of the road but women’s acceleration phase.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • In other forms of tow sports, faster acceleration is the norm.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • The acceleration was fueled by the biggest jump in costs of hotel stays in more than a year.
    Reade Pickert, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Remember, Newton's second law says the net force is equal to the product of the mass and the acceleration (Fnet = ma).
    WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
  • There were also quite a few acceleration tests along the way.
    Tim Stevens, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And then there’s acceleration from the torquey, low-revving engine which shoves the two-seater ahead with a confident whisk.
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Hill is the only player with a 99 acceleration rating in the game.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • Maxx Force sends you off into the air at 78 mph in the blink of an eye, the fastest acceleration of any roller coaster in North America.
    Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The engines pull in air, which has mass, and quickly push that air out of the back of the engine – so there’s a mass multiplied by an acceleration.
    Craig Merrett, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Even its acceleration – a weak point in past Priuses – is quite good.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • For a machine that weighs the better part of three tons, such acceleration is amazing.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The boat will have the same steep acceleration curve of an electric vehicle.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2022
  • And while there’s been an acceleration in the allure of AI, not every idea is worth investing in.
    John Kell, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Bernstein agreed those efforts pointed to an earnings acceleration in the first half of next year but noted the pace of that uptick will be slow.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Too fast an acceleration of spending could lead the central bank to raise rates even further.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • An aggressive throttle map, like on GT mode, means quick acceleration with just a light brush of the gas pedal.
    Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023

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