accablet (akabl)

t. [F. accabler, overwhelm, crush; earlier, in pa . sense, be crushed; overburden. IMG:content-0117.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The language of this race; Accadian. Also spelled Akkad. accelerator rection in music, indicating that a pa age is to be played with increasing rapidity. accelerate (ak-sel'e-rāt), v.; pret. and pp. ас celerated, ppr. accelerating. [ Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 191. 2. To bring nearer in time; bring about, or help to bring about, more speedily than would otherwise have been the case: as, to accelerate the ruin of a government; to accelerate death. -Accelerated motion, in mech., that motion which continually receives fresh acce ions of velocity. See accelera tion. Accelerating force, the force which produces an accelerated motion, as gravity. - Accelerating gun, a cannon having supplementary powder-chambers, designed to be fired in turn, immediately after the main ex plosion, to accelerate the speed of the shot; an accelerator. = Syn. See list under quicken, 3. II. in trans. To become faster; increase in speed. acceleratedly (ak-sel'e-ra-ted-li), adv. In an accelerated or accelerating manner; with acceleration or gradual increase of speed. acceleration (ak-sel-e-ra's hon), n. [L. accele ratio (n-), a hastening, At the present time, and for several you sand years in the future, the variation in the moon's motion has been and will be an acceleration. Thomson and Tait, Nat. Phil., I. 850. (b) In mech., the rate of change of the velocity of a moving body; that is, the increment of velocity (in any direction) in the unit of time which would result were the rate of ing to the Accads, the primitive inhabitants of Babylonia. II. n. 1. An Accad.-2. The language of the Accads, a non-Semitic and perhaps Ural-Altaic language spoken in ancient Babylonia previously to the later and better-known Semitic dialect of the cuneiform inscriptions. A kindred dialect, the Sumerian, seems to have been in use at the same time in Babylonia. Also spelled Akkadian.