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Acceleration is brisk, linear and quiet and feels more potent than the 107-horsepower equivalent rating suggests.
First Drive: 2011 Nissan Leaf - A practical hatchback that just happens to be electric 2010
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Acceleration is an even harder problem for such a vehicle since optimizing the engine and vehicle to operate at a certain almost always degrades performance at other speeds.
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Acceleration is leisurely; it takes a lot of shifting to keep the Fiesta up to speed.
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Acceleration is 3.5 seconds from 0-62 and a top speed of 193.
Paris Motor Show: Lotus unveils five new, high-performance cars 2010
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Acceleration is any change in velocity, and thus includes a change in direction as well as magnitude. walt Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Trying to Remember High School Physics 2008
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It doesn’t look like they funded the company (otherwise Duffy wouldn’t have looked for money in the first place), but they ran it through what they call their Acceleration program, which sounded like a type of incubation for younger companies to me.
Virgin Charter Launches: Private Aviation Marketplace Michael Arrington 2005
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Acceleration is also the strategy that recharged the band’s music.
SXSW: R.E.M. Hits the Throttle - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Acceleration is also the strategy that recharged the band’s music.
SXSW: R.E.M. Hits the Throttle - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Acceleration, which is a methodology he created to help people and organizations get results faster through strategic clarity and Communication Mastery.
WN.com - Articles related to Toshiba bets on semiconductors and nuclear power to drive future growth 2010
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"Acceleration" or lack thereof is a quality often referred to by bike reviewers, and I'm always entertained when it's applied to a machine that will not accelerate or in fact move at all without the application of a rider--or, at the very least, gravity.
The Flax of Life: Nü-Fred Look, Classic Fred Taste BikeSnobNYC 2009
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