accelerated
- adjective
- /əˈkɛləˌreɪtɪd/
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acelerado
- So women around the time of menopause can often experience an accelerated loss in this bone mass.
- Accelerated Schools
- Accelerated Schools Project
- Accelerated Teacher Education
We saw climate change really producing accelerated crises and shocks around the world.
- We saw climate change really producing accelerated crises and shocks around the world.
- And this is already beginning to happen in an accelerated pace.
- So women around the time of menopause can often experience an accelerated loss in this bone mass.
- It's the next four years where you really get the accelerated growth.
- And there's one fungus that's been implicated in causing the accelerated growth of pancreatic cancer.
Examples
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We saw climate change really producing accelerated crises and shocks around the world.
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The Accelerated Schools Process attempts to develop a culture of inquiry that impacts the way all issues are framed and treated.
Academic text (1996) -
The Accelerated Schools process created a framework for organization and the establishment of common principles to guide school development at all sites.
Academic text (1996) -
The Accelerated Schools Project is an exciting and dynamic venture whose goal is to bring all students into the educational mainstream and function at grade level by the end of elementary school (Accelerated Schools, 1991).
Academic text (1992) -
The Accelerated Schools Project is an attempt to restructure schools with high concentrations of students in at-risk situations by utilizing school-site decision-making guided by action research.
Academic text (1996) -
The company implemented an accelerated training program to help new employees get up to speed quickly.
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Due to the accelerated timeline, the team had to work overtime to meet the project deadline.
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The city planned accelerated construction of the new public transport system to improve commuting times.
Synonyms
295
1.3
Happening very quickly
70
1.8
Moving or happening very quickly with little delay
24
3.9
Happening very quickly with a lot of action
6
7.8
Done quickly without wasting time
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
accelerated = accelerate (transparent) = accelerate + ed
The adjective is a regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'accelerate', meaning 'made faster'.
Etymology
Accelerated comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and celer 'fast', so it originally meant 'to make fast'. Think of a car's accelerator pedal: pressing it makes a car go faster, and an accelerated course is one made to happen more quickly.