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Meanings of quickening in English

Portuguese
aceleração
Catalan
acceleració

The act of accelerating; increasing the speed.

      aceleração
      Synonyms
      Examples for "acceleration"
      Examples for "acceleration"
      1
      The German generics market is in a period of acceleration, said Forman.
      Reuters
      2
      You'd need a pretty good acceleration in the fourth quarter, Slob said.
      Reuters
      3
      The kinematics approach will not work because the acceleration is not known.
      Wired
      4
      That has led to an acceleration of corporate spinoff moves this year.
      Reuters
      5
      They'll point to yesterday's property numbers as fresh evidence of this acceleration.
      The Irish Times
      1
      Efficiency meant work practices such as the speedup and the stretch-out.
      American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
      2
      With these people we did not find any speedup when the camera was produced.
      Once there was a war
      3
      That's nearly a threefold speedup from the group's previous modulator.
      Wired
      4
      But you don't need a trillionfold speedup in order to be favoured by natural selection.
      The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
      5
      When using MPI with multi-threading, linear speedup can be achieved for up to 256 processors.
      Pubmed
      Usage of quickening in English
      1
      She crossed the road, quickening her pace as she approached the water.
      The lovers
      2
      They will be but the outstanding individuals in a very universal quickening.
      What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
      3
      His foot was throbbing dully now, keeping time with his quickening heartbeat.
      Blue noon
      4
      The man felt it in a stronger purpose and a quickening hope.
      Cast Adrift
      5
      Even in her mortal frailty she had a quickening of the heart.
      The Path of the King
      6
      Behind her came quickening footsteps and then a hand touched her back.
      Heat Wave
      7
      Over the speaker, he could hear Butler's pace quickening to a run.
      Artemis Fowl
      8
      So the two main effects expressed here are these: quickening and cleansing.
      Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
      9
      He plunged into Trevelyan and the heart-quickening ups and downs of battle.
      The Brimming Cup
      10
      The trembling might well be a minuscule quickening of something to come.
      After dark
      11
      Eternities later, a quickening in her torture returned Nora to the world.
      The hellfire club
      12
      Janet, in the drawing-room, received him with hardly a quickening of pulse.
      A Daughter of To-Day
      13
      On the contrary, at first there came a considerable quickening of fervour.
      Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
      14
      The first howls were taken up and echoed and with quickening repetitions.
      My Antonia
      15
      He looked for devotion in the glances, for trembling silence, quickening breaths.
      Invisible Links
      16
      Yea, all that is in Christ contributeth to this life and quickening.
      Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
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      Translations for quickening
      Quickening through the time
      Quickening across language varieties
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