Dictionary definition: acceleration

Article: Rotational acceleration: why it's a real headache. (Safe ...
Design News;  January 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... issue of head rotational acceleration. What's the concern ... trauma. Sufficiently large accelerations (forces) can cause the ... more tolerant of linear accelerations in certain directions than ... addition to whole body linear acceleration effects, a physical entity ...

Article: Acceleration: a coat of many colours.
Roeper Review;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... in educational circles than the word acceleration. Much of the controversy surrounding ... in educational research. Although acceleration can take several forms, many teachers ... administrators associate the word with radical acceleration or multiple grade skipping. In Australia ...

Article: Acceleration.(education)
Roeper Review;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Acceleration is perhaps one of the most misunderstood ... discussing the myths that have grown up around acceleration, we should define what it is and describe some of the forms it can take. Acceleration refers to any of a number of curricular ...

Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Acceleration Sensor with ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 2, 2007 ;     601 words ... ... ken, Japan, have developed an acceleration sensor including a piezoelectric material ... Office: "A compact, highly sensitive acceleration sensor that is not affected by factors other than acceleration, such as a change in temperature ...

Article: Maximizing your athletes' acceleration.(GameSpeed)
Coach and Athletic Director;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... covered the topic of proper linear acceleration technique. This article will elaborate on acceleration and delve deeper into how to enhance ... for an athlete's "drive phase" of acceleration. There are a number of specific hip ...

Article: Stampede Technologies Announces Acceleration On-Demand ...
Business Wire;  April 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... applicability and ease of use of Stampede's Acceleration Solutions Stampede(R) Technologies ... a leading provider of enterprise acceleration solutions, announced today the release ... client software technology that provides Acceleration On-Demand(TM) capability for enterprise ...

Article: Siemens Mobile Acceleration Extends Investment Focus to ...
Business Wire;  March 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Calif. -- Siemens Mobile Acceleration (SMAC), the leading backer ... adopted a new name, Siemens Acceleration in Communications, to better reflect its new mandate. Siemens Acceleration plans to invest USD $100 million ...