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		GolfPopper 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America's economy looks set to accelerate accelerate - "To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of." I.e. The airplane will accelerate as it plunges toward the ground.

cultofmetatron 4 months ago | [–]

the scientific definition is merely the change in velocity. slamming your breaks would also count as accelerating from a physics perspective.

wslh 4 months ago | [–]

This is not what the article says, so in this context is misleading.

hackable_sand 4 months ago | [–]

Accelerate into a wall.

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