Definition of "acceleration" []

• The act of accelerating. (noun)
• The process of being accelerated. (noun)
• Physics The rate of change of velocity with respect to time. (noun)

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• "So it's a scientific use of the term acceleration, as opposed to what we would think of."
• "That is, the acceleration is a negative multiple of the position."
• ": Basically, this apps just attempts to give a value for the local gravitational field (which it calls the acceleration due to gravity)."