Meaning

1 senses

  1. Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Police brought a dog that could track accelerants.

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  2. Tom used an accelerant to start the fire.

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  3. A substance that accelerates chemical reactions is an accelerant.

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  4. The police were able to determine that an accelerant was used in the fire.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with

From accelerate + -ant (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs, or forming adjectives with senses of being prone or tending to do the actions of verbs).

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Forms

more accelerant, most accelerant
Comparativemore accelerant Lesson
Superlativemost accelerant Lesson

regular

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
academicianacademyB1acaiaccedeaccelerateaccelerationaccelerator
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