accelerated
adj1
Moving or progressing faster than is usual.
- The requirement that students read textual materials before their first class is probably more important for accelerated than intensive courses, but it is relevant for both.2010, Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Margery B. Ginsberg, Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses: Instruction that Motivates Learning, →ISBN, page 9:
2
Happening sooner than expected.
- OMB's November 15 deadline for the PAR submission is earlier than the statutory deadline. OMB's recent memorandum to agency heads on the subject made this accelerated deadline permanent2006, David M. Walker, Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, But More Can Be Done to Engage Congress, →ISBN, page 41:
- Derived terms
- accelerated dragon, accelerated freefall, acceleratedly, hyperaccelerated, nonaccelerated, reaccelerated, unaccelerated
- Hyponyms
- hardware-accelerated