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outaccelerate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *kel-der. Latin celer Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin celerō Latin accelerō Latin accelerātuslbor. ▲ Latin accelerō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accelerātiōder. English accelerationbf. English accelerate English outaccelerate From out- + accelerate.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To accelerate faster than.
   • The car company's new model easily outaccelerates the competition.
   • "So right after this, he gets back on his bike, opens the throttle and roars off, the open road rushing out like a ribbon, his speed topping out at, oh, I don't know. How fast can a Harley go? Mr. Waldburger?" ¶ "Fast as you want it, big machine outaccelerates an F-16 on the runway," says Mr. Waldburger with the kind of easy confidence he never displays in talking about the calculus. 1995, David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 204:
   • you cannot outaccelerate me 2022 June 24, @sama [Sam Altman], Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023:

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