acelerador
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- acelarador (dialectal)
- accelerador (obsolete)
Etymology
From acelerar (“to accelerate”) + -dor.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.se.le.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [a.se.le.ɾaˈdoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.se.le.ɾaˈdoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.se.le.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [a.se.le.ɾaˈdoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.se.le.ɾaˈdoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.sɨ.lɨ.ɾɐˈdoɾ/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɨ.ɾɐˈðoɾ], /ɐ.sɨ.lɐ.ɾɐˈdoɾ/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɐ.ɾɐˈðoɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.sɨ.lɨ.ɾɐˈdo.ɾi/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɨ.ɾɐˈðo.ɾi], /ɐ.sɨ.lɐ.ɾɐˈdo.ɾi/ [ɐ.sɨ.lɐ.ɾɐˈðo.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧dor
Noun
acelerador m (plural aceleradores)
- accelerator (a device for causing acceleration)
- Antonyms: desacelerador, freio
- accelerator pedal
Coordinate terms
Adjective
acelerador (feminine aceleradora, masculine plural aceleradores, feminine plural aceleradoras)
- accelerating (which causes something to accelerate)
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “causing acceleration”): desacelerador, refreador
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aθeleɾaˈdoɾ/ [a.θe.le.ɾaˈð̞oɾ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /aseleɾaˈdoɾ/ [a.se.le.ɾaˈð̞oɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧dor
Adjective
acelerador (feminine aceleradora, masculine plural aceleradores, feminine plural aceleradoras)
- accelerating (that causes acceleration)
Noun
acelerador m (plural aceleradores)
- accelerator (device for causing acceleration)
- accelerator pedal
- (chemistry) accelerator (substance that speeds up chemical reactions)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “acelerador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024