outaccelerate

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ accelerate.

Verb

outaccelerate (third-person singular simple present outaccelerates, present participle outaccelerating, simple past and past participle outaccelerated)

1. (transitive) To accelerate faster than.

   The car company's new model easily outaccelerates the competition.

   • 1995, David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 204:

     "So right after this, he gets back on his bike, opens the throttle and roars off, the open road rushing out like a ribbon, his speed topping out at, oh, I don't know. How fast can a Harley go? Mr. Waldburger?" ¶ "Fast as you want it, big machine outaccelerates an F-16 on the runway," says Mr. Waldburger with the kind of easy confidence he never displays in talking about the calculus.

   • 2022 June 24, @sama [Sam Altman], Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 November 2023:

     you cannot outaccelerate me