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Definition of "decelerate" [decelerate]

  • To decrease the velocity of. (verb-transitive)
  • To slow down the rate of advancement of: measures intended to decelerate the arms buildup. (verb-transitive)
  • To decrease in velocity. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "decelerate" in a sentence
  • "In this eWeek podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the vice president of technology for Blue Coat Systems, Dave Asbrey, explains how customers are saving thousands of dollars by using application acceleration technologies to "decelerate" the amount of bandwidth being made available to end users accessing Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube and Facebook on corporate networks."
  • "The downward line on the graph ends when the stimulus is passed, meaning that the rate of job losses began to decelerate after ARRA, with the post-stimulus deceleration happening almost exactly as fast as the losses had been accelerating before ARRA."
  • ""With a revenue growth at 70% and a 17 to 18 price to earnings ratio, that growth rate is expected to decelerate this year and into 2012.""