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Cumulate vs Accelerate - What's the difference?

cumulate | accelerate |

As verbs the difference between cumulate and accelerate

is that cumulate is to accumulate; to amass while accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

As adjectives the difference between cumulate and accelerate

is that cumulate is accumulated, agglomerated, amassed while accelerate is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

As a noun cumulate

is (geology) an igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.

cumulate

English

Verb

(cumulat)
  • To accumulate; to amass.
  • To be accumulated.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • accumulated, agglomerated, amassed

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.
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    accelerate

    English

    Verb

    (accelerat)
  • (label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  • (label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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  • To cause a change of velocity.
  • (label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
  • To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  • (label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  • (label) Grow; increase.
  • (label)

    • Synonyms

    * advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

    Antonyms

    * decelerate * retard

    Derived terms

    * accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

    Related terms

    * accelerando * accelerant * acceleration * accelerograph * accelerometer

    Adjective

  • (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
    • ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.

    References

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