hyperaccelerate

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ accelerate.

Verb

hyperaccelerate (third-person singular simple present hyperaccelerates, present participle hyperaccelerating, simple past and past participle hyperaccelerated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To accelerate excessively.
    • 2011 February 10, Lev Grossman, “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal”, in Time‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 March 2025:
      In [Raymond] Kurzweil’s future, biotechnology and nanotechnology give us the power to manipulate our bodies and the world around us at will, at the molecular level. Progress hyperaccelerates, and every hour brings a century’s worth of scientific breakthroughs.
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