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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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In 2024, nearly 4,000 vehicles were recalled for a faulty accelerator pedal that could become dislodged and stuck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Last October Apple announced the M5 chip, embedding a neural accelerator in every GPU core.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Judge Philip Katz KC told the Old Bailey Jackson had not driven an electric vehicle before and had pressed the accelerator believing it was the brake.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

It expects AI accelerator deployments across six customers, including OpenAI in 2027, to scale multiple gigawatts of computing power in 2027 and after.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Ron put his foot on the accelerator and drove them upward again, but as he did so, the engine began to whine.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling