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speed-up

American  
[speed-uhp] / ˈspidˌʌp /

noun

  1. an increasing of speed.

  2. an imposed increase in the rate of production of a worker without a corresponding increase in the rate of pay.

speed up British  

verb

  1. to increase or cause to increase in speed or rate; accelerate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an instance of this; acceleration

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
speed up Idioms  

  1. Accelerate, expedite, increase the rate, as in The car speeded up as it went downhill, or It's difficult to speed up production without new equipment. [Late 1800s]

Usage

The past tense and past participle of speed up is speeded up , not sped up

Etymology

Origin of speed-up

First recorded in 1920–25; noun use of verb phrase speed up

Example Sentences

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Derek Lessard of TD Cowen says in a report that this acquisition should help speed-up M&A and deliver more meaningful synergies over time, especially once the new business is integrated into the broader company’s operations.

From The Wall Street Journal

Further information released by the Ministry of Justice said it would also speed-up fire safety works in other parts of the prison estate to create useable space.

From BBC

In addition to these control techniques, the methods introduced in this work enable the processor to efficiently generate highly entangled states and shift those states from one type of entanglement to another -- including between types that are more likely to support quantum speed-up and those that are not.

From Science Daily

That speed-up carried over to the postseason, where nine-inning World Series games averaged 3:01, the fastest since 1996.

From Washington Times

In a recent study published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Dr Ina Pöhner and colleagues from the University of Eastern Finland's School of Pharmacy teamed up with the host organisation of Finland's powerful supercomputers, CSC -- IT Center for Science Ltd. -- and industrial collaborators from Orion Pharma to study the prospect of machine learning in the speed-up of giga-scale virtual screens.

From Science Daily

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