the.com/accelerator
The pedal that turns gasoline into adrenaline and patience into a memory.
means A device or mechanism that increases speed — most familiarly the foot pedal that feeds fuel to an engine, but also anything that hastens a process, from particle physics to business growth.
from From Latin 'accelerare,' to hasten, built from 'ad-' (toward) and 'celer' (swift) — the same 'celer' that gives us 'celerity.' English took up 'accelerate' in the 16th century, and 'accelerator' followed as the name for the thing that does the hastening; the car-pedal sense arrived with the automobile around the turn of the 20th century.
- Latin root
- From accelerare, meaning to hasten or quicken
- Particle kind
- Some are 17 miles around to study nothing
- Startup kind
- Trades cash for code and a slice forever
- Drive-by-wire
- Most pedals now send signals, not pull cables
y combinator — startup accelerator founded 2005, has funded airbnb, dropbox, stripe, and 3000+ companies
techstars — accelerator program founded 2006 in boulder, colorado, invested in 2000+ startups across 40+ cities
large hadron collider — particle accelerator near geneva, switzerland, discovered higgs boson in 2012