accelerant
Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.
Adjective
- Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.
Origin
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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Noun
- Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
- Accelerant was poured across the beds where the two daughters of a family in Cheshire, Conn., had been tied before a fire during a home invasion in 2007, a fire investigator told jurors on Friday. - 2010 September 25,...
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In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
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A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
- Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
- Hello Neighbor’s experience reflects the rise of video sites like YouTube as an accelerant for the video game business. - 2017 August 16, Laura Hudson, “Using YouTube as an Accelerant for Video Games”, in The New York...
- [Mike] Skinner can be credited with pouring lots of accelerant on pop in his time. In his absence, Caribbean-derived UK bass music became the de facto sound of British youth. - 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym],...
- But the brutal killing did not capture widespread attention until the security footage was released on Friday, at which point it became an accelerant for conservative arguments about crime, race and the perceived...
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accelerate accelerated accelerating acceleration accelerator nonaccelerated nonaccelerating unaccelerate unaccelerated unaccelerating catalyst