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speeding vs acceleration

acceleration vs speeding

speeding and acceleration both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
speeding Yes No No No
acceleration Yes No No No
As nouns, acceleration is a hyponym of speeding; that is, acceleration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speeding:
  • speeding: changing location rapidly
  • acceleration: the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
Other hyponyms of speeding include quickening, speedup, deceleration, scud, scudding.
speeding (noun) acceleration (noun)
changing location rapidly the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
an increase in rate of change
(physics) a rate of increase of velocity
Difference between speeding and acceleration

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