accelerant
See also: accélérant
English edit
Etymology edit
From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with senses of being prone or tending to do the actions of verbs).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əkˈsɛləɹ(ə)nt/, /æk-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əkˈsɛləɹənt/, /æk-/
Audio (RP) (file) - Hyphenation: ac‧cel‧er‧ant
Noun edit
accelerant (plural accelerants)
- (chemistry) Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
- In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
- 2010 September 25, William Glaberson, “Accelerant Was on Girls’ Beds, Witness Tells a Connecticut Jury”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Accelerant was poured across the beds where the two daughters of a family in Cheshire, Conn., had been tied before a fire during a home invasion in 2007, a fire investigator told jurors on Friday.
- A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
- In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
- (figurative) Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
- 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
- [Mike] Skinner can be credited with pouring lots of accelerant on pop in his time. In his absence, Caribbean-derived UK bass music became the de facto sound of British youth.
Related terms edit
- accelerate
- accelerated (adjective)
- accelerating (adjective, noun)
- acceleration
- accelerator
- nonaccelerated (adjective)
- nonaccelerating (adjective)
- unaccelerated (adjective)
- unaccelerate (rare)
- unaccelerating (adjective)
Translations edit
substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a chemical process
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substance that accelerates the development of a fire
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something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else
See also edit
Adjective edit
accelerant (comparative more accelerant, superlative most accelerant)
Translations edit
causing acceleration or speeding up
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References edit
- ^ “accelerant, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2011; “accelerant, n. and adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- accelerant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan edit
Verb edit
accelerant
Latin edit
Verb edit
accelerant