acceleration : Idioms & Phrases

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Acceleration and retardation of the tides

  • . See Priming of the tides, under Priming.
Webster 1913

Acceleration of the moon

  • the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times.
Webster 1913

Acceleration of the planets

  • the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.
Webster 1913

acceleration unit

  • noun a unit for measuring acceleration
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angular acceleration

  • noun (physics) the rate of change of the angular velocity of a rotating body
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centripetal acceleration

  • noun the acceleration toward the center that holds a satellite in elliptical orbit
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Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars

  • the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding.
Webster 1913

Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc.

  • (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.
Webster 1913