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Accelerator   /æksˈɛlərˌeɪtər/   Listen
Accelerator

noun
1.
A pedal that controls the throttle valve.  Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle.
2.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine.  Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve.
3.
(chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected.  Synonym: catalyst.
4.
A scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles.  Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator.



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"Accelerator" Quotes from Famous Books



... and swept the guards aside with one hand with such force that they skidded across the floor and lay in an unconscious heap against the rear of the garage. Trella had opened the door of the car, but it was wrenched from her hand as Blessing stepped on the accelerator and it leaped into the ...
— The Jupiter Weapon • Charles Louis Fontenay

... at the speedometer. With a sigh, he realized that his reflexes had allowed him a little leeway, and that he was going slightly over the legal speed limit for this Virginia highway. He shook his head, eased up on the accelerator, and began ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

... attention to the care and preservation of their voices, that they only wish to open their mouths for that object, and not for anatomical purposes. In piano-playing also, I require no cutting of the interdigital fold, no mechanical hand-support, no accelerator for the fingers or stretching machine; and not even the "finger-rack" invented and used, without my knowledge, by a famous pupil[A] of mine, for the proper raising of the third ...
— Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of - Musical Performances • Friedrich Wieck

... my grip on the accelerator control, yet it slide up. They say you can't feel speed in the air unless there's something relative within vision to tip you off. They're going to have to revise that. You can not only feel speed you can reach out and break hunks off it—in the XXE-1, that is. I shook my head, ...
— The Very Black • Dean Evans

... urging, Jack went on, panic again growing within him as the car picked up speed. The faster he went the faster he wanted to go. His foot pressed harder and harder on the accelerator. He glanced at the speedometer, saw it flirting with the figures forty-five, and sent that number off the dial and forced fifty and then sixty into sight. He rode the wheel, holding the great car true as a bullet down the black streak of boulevard ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower



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