ACCELERATION UNIT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A unit for measuring acceleration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("acceleration unit" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceleration unit"):

gal (a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo))

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