Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An increase in speed; acceleration.
- noun A required acceleration of work or production without an increase in pay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
amount orrate ofdecrease intime taken. - noun The relationship between time taken and number of
processors used.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
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Examples
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Has it dawned on Friedman that this kind of speedup, which is reflected in so many aspects of modern life including the stock market, may be a source of our deeper woes?
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again Robert Teitelman 2011
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Has it dawned on Friedman that this kind of speedup, which is reflected in so many aspects of modern life including the stock market, may be a source of our deeper woes?
Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again Robert Teitelman 2011
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The speedup is the latest move in a tumultuous legislative session that followed last fall's midterm elections in which Republicans won the governorship and control of both chambers of the Legislature.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Has it dawned on Friedman that this kind of speedup, which is reflected in so many aspects of modern life including the stock market, may be a source of our deeper woes?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Teitelman 2011
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One of the most important issues today, even more important than wages to the workers, to our struggling with something we never heard of, is automation, are the work rules, the kind of speedup that there is today with automation is entirely different from the speedups that we knew in the old day.
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Here, we describe and implement an O (NL (psi (L))) engine for the consecutive windows folding problem, where psi (L) is shown to converge to O (1) under the assumption of a standard probabilistic polymer folding model, yielding an O (L) speedup which is experimentally confirmed.
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Here, we describe and implement an O (NL (psi (L))) engine for the consecutive windows folding problem, where psi (L) is shown to converge to O (1) under the assumption of a standard probabilistic polymer folding model, yielding an O (L) speedup which is experimentally confirmed.
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While the immediate issue in the strike was a speedup imposed by General Motors, the workers quickly turned it into a rebellion against the UAW—“our union, Miss Goody Two Shoes”—which they accused of being more concerned with maintaining high production standards than with defending the freedom of the members.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The temporary speedup in business expensing will cost another $55 billion.
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The temporary speedup in business expensing will cost another $55 billion.
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