ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Hastened, quickened. Accelerated motion, in Physics: motion continually increased in velocity.
1803. Wood, Mech., § 1. 11. When the successive portions of space, described in equal times, continually increase, the motion is said to be accelerated.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt. (1874), II. iii. 243. The stone loosened from the brow of the mountain, and descending with an ever accelerated speed.
