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adj. - Tending to increase velocity.

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  • His own downward progress he described as accelerative, like gravity.
  • I shouldn't need to remind anyone here that this is twice the accelerative capability of the enemy's drones in our last encounter.
  • Even further, as Newton develops the theory to that point, only the accelerative measure of force is employed, and hence even mass plays no role.
  • The rotation rate was set to provide one Earth gravity for the radius of the fore bulb, but accelerative force was inversely proportional to the radius.
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