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speed-up en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from speed up.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of speedup.
   alt of speedup
   • King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...]. 1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
   • By comparison with steam, no big acceleration of the expresses proved possible between Leeds and Manchester and the speed-ups that have been secured owe a great deal to the excision of intermediate stops. 1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The planning and execution of the new Leeds-Manchester service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 201:

Forms

Translations (3)

es agilización (speed-up) · es aceleración (speed-up) · es acelerón (speed-up)