ANGULAR ACCELERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angular acceleration mean? 

• ANGULAR ACCELERATION (noun)
  The noun ANGULAR ACCELERATION has 1 sense:

1. (physics) the rate of change of the angular velocity of a rotating body

  Familiarity information: ANGULAR ACCELERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGULAR ACCELERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) the rate of change of the angular velocity of a rotating body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("angular acceleration" is a kind of...):

acceleration ((physics) a rate of increase of velocity)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

 Context examples 

A unit of angular acceleration equivalent to the rate of change of angular velocity by one angular degree per second during one second period.

(Degree per Second Squared, NCI Thesaurus)