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US
/dɪˈsɛɫɝˌeɪt/
]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛləɹˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛləɹˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
lose velocity; move more slowly
The car decelerated -
reduce the speed of
He slowed down the car
How To Use decelerate In A Sentence
- Kozel yelled, and the shuttle decelerated rapidly, for a moment overpowering the inertial dampers. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
- As the bird lands and decelerates the weight of the pectoralis and sternocoricoideus muscles causes the sternum to swing ventrally, increasing the volume of the thorax.
- It has the simple interpretation that treatment accelerates or decelerates the lifetime by a scale factor.
- As previously reported, the IMF forecast that China's growth rate, which stood at 9.2% last year, will decelerate to 8.2% in 2012. IMF Urges Beijing to Prepare Stimulus
- The import will decelerate will cause the trade surplus expansion quickly.
- The boy decelerates the bobsled where he nears a curve.
- The downward line on the graph ends when the stimulus is passed, meaning that the rate of job losses began to decelerate after ARRA, with the post-stimulus deceleration happening almost exactly as fast as the losses had been accelerating before ARRA. Matthew Yglesias » You Can’t Create Jobs by “Focusing” on the Economy
- Growth in the Gross Domestic Product decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.
- Local consumer spending is likely to decelerate as the unemployment rate, which edged up to 4.7% in the May-July period, tends to rise further, he said.
- To exclude the possibility that the biphasic binding is caused by decelerated binding due to complete charge neutralization, we measured binding directly.