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Accelerative

adjective
1.
Tending to increase velocity.  Synonym: acceleratory.





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... the night air? It is a huge National Representative Old-dragoon, descending by Paperkite; too rapidly, alas! For Drouet had taken with him 'a small provision-store, twenty pounds weight or thereby;' which proved accelerative: so he fell, fracturing his leg; and lay there, moaning, till day dawned, till you could discern clearly that he was not a Portent but a Representative! (His narrative in ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
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... body that, by a radius drawn to another body, howsoever moved, describes areas about that centre proportional to the times is urged by a force compounded out of the centripetal force tending to that other body and of all the accelerative force by which ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various
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Words linked to "Accelerative" :   increasing, accelerate


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