should decelerate be removed as a word?

[brainhulk]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=319994&highlight=decelerate

The prefix de means removal of. The removal of acceleration is not the same as the intended meaning of decelerate. I think negative acceleration is the correct description of when people use the term decelerate.

 

[tynopik]

meh

 

[NTMBK]

No such thing as negative acceleration, either. It's an acceleration, full stop.

 

[brainhulk]

No such thing as negative acceleration, either. It's an acceleration, full stop.

When you are slowing down, it is acceleration in the opposite direction.

You can be moving at a constant speed and not accelerating.

 

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[Conscript]

Why not? They're just words, they don't own us

 

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[cbrunny]

"Brainhulk" makes me think of someone that gets freakishly smart when they're angry.

I can only assume that the owner of that name was doing something very calming and soothing when they made this thread.

 

[Jaepheth]

'Brake'
'Slow down'
'Reverse thrust'

 

[Linflas]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=319994&highlight=decelerate

The prefix de means removal of. The removal of acceleration is not the same as the intended meaning of decelerate. I think negative acceleration is the correct description of when people use the term decelerate.

No that is just 1 of the meanings therefore Quit Posting is the correct choice:


de-

prefix

1. removal of or from something specified: deforest, dethrone

2. reversal of something: decode, decompose, desegregate

3. departure from: decamp

Word Origin

from Latin, from dē (prep) from, away from, out of, etc. In compound words of Latin origin, de- also means away, away from (decease); down (degrade); reversal (detect); removal (defoliate); and is used intensively (devote) and pejoratively (detest)

 

[SlitheryDee]

The root word is celerate, which means "a number per unit of time" or something like that. Decelerate is not the removal of acceleration, but the removal of a unit of speed per a unit of time. Accelerate is the addition of a unit of speed per a unit of time. They are both perfectly descriptive.

 

[lozina]

Don't make me come over there and celerate you

 

[Scarpozzi]

don't make me come over there and celerate you

"celerate good times come on!!!"

 

[IronWing]

<Cue Carly Simon>

DEcelera-a-tion, it's making me stop...

 

[Ferzerp]

Not really, no.

The technical physics definition of accelerate isn't the same as the accepted generic definition of accelerate. There are other examples of this as well.

That and you're totally mistaken in your understanding of the word being modified by "de". The important bit is the "celerate" bit. Compare to celerity meaning swiftness. Decelerate is not the removal of acceleration. It is the removal of swiftness or speed (the celerate bit). Celerate isn't a word in English, obviously without the prefixes, but that's the construction of the words regardless.

edit: And if you want to know more, accelerate is a bit of a weird construction. The "ac" in this case is more usually seen as "ad" in other words (meaning to, towards, etc) but since is precedes a c, it becomes "ac" just as in accumulation (opposite of decumulation which is so rarely used that my spell check is complaining about it despite it being a proper word).


It usually helps to actually get the details correct when complaining about some imagined inconsistency else you just look silly.

 

[waffleironhead]

I agree...that you should stop posting.

 

[manimal]

these arguments always Deevolve.

 

[feralkid]

these arguments always Deevolve.

There's an extra "E" there; not telling you which one.