Acceleration

 Is the rate of change of an object’s velocity. The concepts “speeding up” and “slowing down”
actually imply positive and negative accelerations (negative acceleration is commonly called
deceleration).

 a vehicle's capacity to gain speed within a short time.

 increase in the rate or speed of something.

 the rate of change of velocity per unit of time.

 In physics, acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. An object's
acceleration is the net result of all forces acting on the object, as described by Newton's Second
Law.[1] The SI unit for acceleration is metre per second squared (m s−2).Accelerations are vector quantities
(they have magnitude and direction) and add according to the parallelogram law.[2][3] The vector of the
net force acting on a body has the same direction as the vector of the body's acceleration, and its magnitude
is proportional to the magnitude of the acceleration, with the object's mass (a scalar quantity) as
proportionality constant.