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The word accelerator has several possible meanings.

• A particle accelerator in physics.
• An accelerator to speed a function in computer hardware.
• Usually in the UK, and sometimes in the US, the pedal (often called the gas pedal in the US) that controls the engine speed of an automobile. See accelerator (car) .
• A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction, such as the curing of an adhesive. See accelerator (chemistry) .
• The accelerator effect in economics refers to stimulus to private fixed investment that occurs due to growth in aggregate demand.

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Accelerator (computing)In computing, an accelerator is an additional unit of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal CPU. Examples include graphics accelerators and floating-point accelerators. The term is outdated and has bee AcceleratorThe word accelerator has several possible meanings. A particle accelerator in physics. An accelerator to speed a function in computer hardware. Usually in the UK, and sometimes in the US, the pedal (often called the gas pedal in the US) that controls the Accelerator physicsAccelerator physics deals with the problems of building and operating particle accelerators. The experiments conducted in particle accelerators are not regarded as part of accelerator physics . These belong (according to the accelerator they are performed Accelerator effectThe accelerator effect in economics refers to a positive effect on private fixed investment of the growth of the market economy (measured, say, by Gross Domestic Product). an economic boom or prosperity) implies that businesses in general see rising profi Accelerator mass spectrometryAccelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a kind of mass spectrometry.