ACCELERATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accelerated mean? 

• ACCELERATED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCELERATED has 1 sense:

1. speeded up, as of an academic course

  Familiarity information: ACCELERATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCELERATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speeded up, as of an academic course

Context example:

in an accelerated program in school

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

 Context examples 

The finding calls into question the idea that the recent accelerated ice loss will be short-lived.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

Dark matter acts like invisible glue, holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together gravitationally, while dark energy is thought to be responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)

Researchers say the accelerated ice loss is caused by a combination of global warming, as well as the North Atlantic oscillation, a periodic weather phenomenon that brings warmer air to western Greenland.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

The discovery of exoplanets has accelerated the search for life outside our solar system.

(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He also found that the model predicts the accelerated expansion of the universe without having to factor in any particle or dark energy.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"We hypothesized these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot."

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)

A pulsar wind can be produced when particles are accelerated in the electrical field that is produced by the fast rotation of a neutron star with a strong magnetic field.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)

Accelerated partial-breast irradiation may be given using internal or external sources of radiation.

(Accelerated partial-breast irradiation, NCI Dictionary)

Nonenzymatically glycosylated proteins or lipids which accumulate in vascular tissue during aging and at an accelerated rate in diabetes.

(Advanced Glycation End Product, NCI Thesaurus)