ACCELERATE

Accelerate

Accelerate is the 14th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate was intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M. previewed several of the album's tracks during a five-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and recorded the album in a nine-week schedule.

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accelerate

Verb

  1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
    to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
  3. To cause a change of velocity.
  4. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
    to accelerate our departure.
  5. To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  6. To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  7. Grow; increase.

Adjective

  1. Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.


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