His own downward progress he described as accelerative, like gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

I shouldn't need to remind anyone here that this is twice the accelerative capability of the enemy's drones in our last encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Science Fiction: Star Dragon] Reference

Clifton and Ferreira also provide an accurate, concise explanation of an intriguing foundational problem in general relativistic cosmology, which might explain the apparent observation of accelerative expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Whilst the supernovae observations which support the notion of accelerative expansion extend out to billions of light years, observations of the distribution of galaxies only extend out to hundreds of millions of light years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

I did have one concern, however, in that I did not understand what was going on between pages 135 and 136, when 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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Science Fiction: Star Dragon] Reference

But something not to be overlooked is that if living things have landed alive upon this earth -- in spite of all we think we know of the accelerative velocity of falling bodies -- and have propagated -- why the exotic becomes the indigenous, or from the strangest of places we'd expect the familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Organism and accelerative absorption of energy, 79; and economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Isoproterenol (a drug similar to adrenaline) had the same accelerative effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [blueollie] Reference

Few people then will ever get discover the extraordinary accelerative abilities of a GT2 RS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Sonata will at least have the accelerative chops to stick with the rest of the sport sedan competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

Gs of of "accelerative force" while plugged into a motherboard, and TweakTown says it's designed to survive this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

It's safe to say, that those 3.9 seconds to 60 mph will be the most pleasant supercar-like accelerative moments of your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

PAM is a card acting as an accelerative cache, that can be installed in a NetApp storage array and accelerate all the storage in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

The one principle -- the accelerative law which is the law of the organic -- urges all alike onward to development, reproduction and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

Ultimately, radio's accelerative effect would be of great benefit to the popular music industry, yielding an exponential increase in the market for its goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Not to produce a retardative reaction, but an accelerative response: for, in the enlarging of the leaf by growth, the plant opens for itself new channels of supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The acceleration is not dissimilar to being let off a giant bowstring, the accelerative forces ramping up rapidly with a rubber-band-like effect that gets stronger and stronger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Two of the most respected names in performance-car engineering have combined forces to produce what has been billed as "one of the most accelerative all-wheel-drive hatches yet".    From Wordnik.com.  [Motoring]

They would be created whenever the attractive influence of the disturbing planet was exerted in a forward or accelerative sense, but could come only by a rare exception to our notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

A moment's consideration shows that such progressive activity denotes an accelerative attitude on the part of the organism towards the transfer of energy into the organic material system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference

The Ultra 260LX's comfort and handling features are enough to please any rider, but its Roots-type supercharger equipped 1,498cc engine gives it the accelerative performance to satisfy hard-core racers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference

They found that some drops plummeted faster than the so-called terminal velocity for their size -- the speed, based on a well-established scale, at which air resistance counteracts the accelerative force of gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceNOW] Reference

The wagon's accelerative power has an addictive quality to it as a result, and somehow the rapid progress is rendered all the more satisfying when you remember the engine's fuel efficiency is as remarkable as its torque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Every body that, by a radius drawn to another body, howsoever moved, describes areas about that centre proportional to the times is urged by a force compounded out of the centripetal force tending to that other body and of all the accelerative force by which that other body is impelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

The apparent anomaly of accounting for an accelerative effect by a retarding cause disappears when it is considered that any check to the motion of bodies revolving round a centre of attraction causes them to draw closer to it, thus shortening their periods and quickening their circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

Thus, the “accelerative force” would be directly proportional to the radius, wouldn’t it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Science Fiction: Star Dragon] Reference

We've rewritten that parable to demonstrate the accelerative effect of investing in women: "Give a woman a fish and she will feed her family first and possibly go hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine Grumm: Women Speak Out on the Economy] Reference

"The DBS's handling and braking are more than up to its accelerative capability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference