Growth vs Acceleration - What's the difference?
growth | acceleration |
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
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, title= (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
(uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
(countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
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(physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
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As nouns the difference between growth and acceleration
is that growth is an increase in size, number, value, or strength while acceleration is the act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.growth
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(wikipedia growth)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Synonyms
* (increase in size) enlargement, expansion, increase, increment * (act of growing) development, maturation * (something that grows or has grown) vegetation * outgrowth, cancer, massAntonyms
* (increase in size) contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction * (act of growing) nondevelopmentDerived terms
* growth spurt * growth stock * overgrowth * undergrowthHyponyms
* tumoracceleration
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Alternative forms
* *Noun
- a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity
- The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
- A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration
