Acceleration, in physics, is the rate at which the velocity of a body changes over time.

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Acceleration may also refer to:

• Acceleration (biology), the speeding up of some part of embryonic development, a form of heterochrony
• Acceleration (differential geometry), the rate of change of velocity of a curve with respect to a given linear connection
• Acceleration (human), in developmental biology
• Acceleration (law), a shortening of the time period in which something is to take place
• Academic acceleration, the rapid advancement of students
• Accelerating change, the exponential nature of the rate of technological change in recent history
• Cardiotocographic acceleration, an apparent abrupt increase in fetal heart rate
• Vehicular acceleration, usually controlled by a throttle such as an accelerator pedal in a car
• The sensation of a change in speed
• Series acceleration, in mathematics, a sequence transformation for improving the rate of convergence of a series
• Acceleration (album)
• Acceleration (film), 2019 American action film
• Accelerationism, critical and social theory
• Accelerations Waltz (1860) by Johann Strauß
• Uskorenie, a slogan used by Mikhail Gorbachev that translates to acceleration

• Accelerate (disambiguation)
• Accelerator (disambiguation)

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