Have you ever got in your car after a long absence and got the brake mixed up with the accelerator?
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Accelerator
//əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ//
Synonyms for "accelerator" (82 found)
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1 entriesderived
19 entriesa device that speeds up computer processinga key which a user can press to activate a menua pedal used to control a vehicle's speedaccelerator cardaccelerator effectaccelerator keyaccelerator mass spectrometryaccelerator nervesaccelerator pedalantiacceleratorcardioacceleratorhit the acceleratorlaser-plasma acceleratornerves that speed up a bodily functionother elementparticle accelerator
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8 entriesis a
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2 entriesTranslations
126 translations across 40 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- دَوَّاسَةُ الوَقُود noun (accelerator pedal)
- مُسَرِّع noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- مُعَجِّل noun (device for causing acceleration)
Armenian
4 entries- արագարար noun (accelerator pedal)
- արագացուցիչ noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- արագացուցիչ noun (device for causing acceleration)
- աքսելերատոր noun (accelerator pedal)
Belarusian
2 entries- паскара́льнік noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- паскара́льнік noun (device for causing acceleration)
Bulgarian
4 entries- катализа́тор noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- педа́л за газта́ noun (accelerator pedal)
- ускори́тел noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- ускори́тел noun (device for causing acceleration)
Catalan
2 entries- accelerador noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerador noun (device for causing acceleration)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 加速器 noun (physics: device that accelerates charged particles — see also particle accelerator)
- 油門 /油门 noun (accelerator pedal)
- 種子加速器 /种子加速器 noun (program for startup companies)
Czech
1 entries- urychlovač noun (device for causing acceleration)
Danish
4 entries- accelerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- gaspedal noun (accelerator pedal)
- katalysator noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
Dutch
3 entries- gaspedaal noun (accelerator pedal)
- katalysator noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- versneller noun (device for causing acceleration)
Esperanto
2 entries- akcelilo noun (device for causing acceleration)
- akcelilo noun (accelerator pedal)
Faroese
1 entries- spitari noun (accelerator pedal)
Finnish
4 entries- kaasupoljin noun (accelerator pedal)
- katalyytti noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- kiihdytin noun (device for causing acceleration)
- kiihdytin noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
French
4 entries- accélérateur noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accélérateur noun (device for causing acceleration)
- accélérateur noun (accelerator pedal)
- accélérateur noun (program for startup companies)
German
4 entries- Accelerator noun (program for startup companies)
- Beschleuniger noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- Beschleuniger noun (device for causing acceleration)
- Beschleuniger noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
Hindi
1 entries- त्वरक noun (device for causing acceleration)
Hungarian
1 entries- gázpedál noun (accelerator pedal)
Icelandic
1 entries- bensíngjöf noun (accelerator pedal)
Indonesian
4 entries- katalis noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- katalisator noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- pedal gas noun (accelerator pedal)
- pedal pemacu noun (accelerator pedal)
Interlingua
1 entries- accelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
Italian
1 entries- acceleratore noun (accelerator pedal)
Japanese
1 entries- アクセル noun (accelerator pedal)
Kazakh
1 entries- үдеткіш noun (device for causing acceleration)
Macedonian
4 entries- забрзувач noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- забрзувач noun (device for causing acceleration)
- катализа́тор noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- педал за гас noun (accelerator pedal)
Malay
4 entries- injak pemecut noun (accelerator pedal)
- pemecut noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- pemecut noun (device for causing acceleration)
- pencepat noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
Middle Persian
1 entries- 𐭠𐭱𐭲𐭠𐭯𐭢𐭥 noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- akselerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- akselerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- akselerator noun (program for startup companies)
- gasspedal noun (accelerator pedal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- akselerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- akselerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- akselerator noun (program for startup companies)
- gasspedal noun (accelerator pedal)
Persian
1 entries- شتابگر noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- gaussläpel noun (accelerator pedal)
Polish
2 entries- akcelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- akcelerator noun (accelerator pedal)
Portuguese
4 entries- acelerador noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- acelerador noun (device for causing acceleration)
- acelerador noun (accelerator pedal)
- acelerador noun (photography: chemical that reduces development time)
Romanian
4 entries- accelerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- accelerator noun (accelerator pedal)
- iuțitor noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
Russian
4 entries- акселера́тор noun (accelerator pedal)
- газ noun (accelerator pedal)
- катализа́тор noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- педа́ль га́за noun (accelerator pedal)
Slovak
1 entries- urýchľovač noun (device for causing acceleration)
Slovene
1 entries- pospeševalnik noun (device for causing acceleration)
Spanish
4 entries- accelerador noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerador noun (device for causing acceleration)
- accelerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
Swahili
1 entries- kichapuzi noun (device for causing acceleration)
Swedish
4 entries- accelerator noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- accelerator noun (device for causing acceleration)
- accelerator noun (substance which speeds up chemical reactions)
- gaspedal noun (accelerator pedal)
Tagalog
3 entries- pandarasig noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- pandarasig noun (device for causing acceleration)
- silinyador noun (accelerator pedal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- приско́рювач noun (one who, or that which, accelerates)
- приско́рювач noun (device for causing acceleration)
Sample sentences
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I stepped on the accelerator carefully.
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I stepped carefully on the accelerator.
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The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator.
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