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outaccelerate

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ accelerate.

Verb

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outaccelerate (third-person singular simple present outaccelerates, present participle outaccelerating, simple past and past participle outaccelerated)

  1. (transitive) To accelerate faster than.
    The car company's new model easily outaccelerates the competition.
    • 1995, David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 204:
      "So right after this, he gets back on his bike, opens the throttle and roars off, the open road rushing out like a ribbon, his speed topping out at, oh, I don't know. How fast can a Harley go? Mr. Waldburger?" ¶ "Fast as you want it, big machine outaccelerates an F-16 on the runway," says Mr. Waldburger with the kind of easy confidence he never displays in talking about the calculus.
    • 2022 June 24, @sama [Sam Altman], Twitter[1], archived from the original on 18 November 2023:
      you cannot outaccelerate me