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The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor.…

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.

To encourage. [Obs.]

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

ment, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

s are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.