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A hastening; a shortening of the time until some event takes place. A person who has the right to take possession of property at some future time may have that right accelerated if the present holder loses his or her legal right to the property. If a life estate fails for any reason, the remainder is accelerated. The principle of acceleration can be applied when it becomes clear that one party to a contract is not going to perform his or her obligations. Anticipatory Repudiation, or the possibility of future breach, makes it possible to move the right to remedies back to the time of repudiation rather than to wait for the time when performance would be due and an actual breach would occur. acceleration n. 1) speeding up the time when there is vesting (absolute ownership) of an interest in an estate, when the interest in front of it is terminated earlier than expected; 2) in a contract or promissory note when the payment of debt is moved up to the present time due to some event like non-payment of an installment or sale of the property which secures the debt. (See: acceleration clause, vest) acceleration noun dispatch, expedition, expediiious performance, hastening, hurrying, increase of speed, quickening, shortening of time, speedup, spurt, stepping up a pace Associated concepts: acceleration clause, acceleration doccrine, acceleration of a testamentary gift, acceleration of payments, acceleration of remainders See also: boom, haste, increase How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Among them are Galileo's
experiment with inclined planes that established a mathematical formula
for accelerated motion, Isaac Newton's unraveling of the nature of
light and color, and Thomas Young's two-slit experiment that
revealed the wavelike character of light. And not
only in the phenomena of the pendulum did he discover regularity; the
investigation of motion along a sloping plane convinced him after many
measurements that all phenomena of gravity could be described in the
most simple way by means of uniformly accelerated motion. 0, and adds modules
for accelerated motion tracking, image stabilization, and corner pinning
- functions that are the foundations for successful paint and
rotoscoping work. |
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