Synonyms of the word accelerator


ACCELERATORACTIVATOR - CATALYST - GAS - GUN - PEDAL - THROTTLE - TREADLE - VALVE

accelerator

  • n. One who, or that which, accelerates.
  • n. A device for causing acceleration.
  • n. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
  • n. (vehicles) An accelerator pedal.
  • n. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
  • n. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.
  • n. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speed the performance of an action.
  • n. (computing) accelerator key.

activator

  • n. One who, or that which, activates.
  • n. (chemistry) Something that activates a catalyst.
  • n. (biology) Any chemical or agent which regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription.
  • n. (biology) A type of effector that increases the rate of enzyme-mediated reactions.
  • n. A type of dopant used in phosphors and scintillators.
  • n. (mining) An agent that enables the flotation of a mineral or minerals.

catalyst

  • n. (chemistry) A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
  • n. Someone or something that encourages progress or change.
  • n. (literature) An inciting incident which that sets the successive conflict into motion.
  • n. (automotive) A catalytic converter.

gas

  • n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
  • n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
  • n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
  • n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
  • n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
  • n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
  • n. (baseball) A fastball.
  • v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
  • v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
  • v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
  • v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
  • v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
  • n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
  • n. (US) Gas pedal.
  • v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
  • v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
  • adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gun

  • n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
  • n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
  • n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
  • n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
  • n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
  • n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
  • v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
  • v. To speed something up.
  • v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
  • v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
  • v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  • v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

pedal

  • n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
  • n. (medicine) a foot or footlike part.
  • n. (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
  • n. (equestrian, humorous) A stirrup.
  • n. (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
  • v. To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
  • v. To operate a bicycle.
  • adj. Of or relating to the foot.

throttle

  • n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
  • n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
  • n. The windpipe or trachea.
  • v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
  • v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
  • v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

treadle

  • n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
  • n. (biology) Chalaza.
  • v. (intransitive) To use a treadle.

valve

  • n. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
  • n. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows…
  • n. (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents…
  • n. (Britain) A vacuum tube.
  • n. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
  • n. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape,…
  • n. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
  • n. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
  • v. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

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