acelerador

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === acelarador (dialectal) accelerador (obsolete) === Etymology === From acelerar +‎ -dor. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧dor === Noun === acelerador m (plural aceleradores) accelerator (a device for causing acceleration) Antonyms: desacelerador, freio accelerator pedal Coordinate terms: embreagem, freio ==== Derived terms ==== === Adjective === acelerador (feminine aceleradora, masculine plural aceleradores, feminine plural aceleradoras) accelerating (that causes to accelerate) Synonym: acelerante Antonyms: desacelerador, refreador ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “acelerador”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “acelerador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Alternative forms === accelerador, accelerator (archaic) === Etymology === From acelerar +‎ -dor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aθeleɾaˈdoɾ/ [a.θe.le.ɾaˈð̞oɾ] (Spain) IPA(key): /aseleɾaˈdoɾ/ [a.se.le.ɾaˈð̞oɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -oɾ Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧ra‧dor === Adjective === acelerador (feminine aceleradora, masculine plural aceleradores, feminine plural aceleradoras) accelerating (that causes acceleration) === Noun === acelerador m (plural aceleradores) accelerator (device for causing acceleration) accelerator pedal (chemistry) accelerator (substance that speeds up chemical reactions) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “acelerador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 “acelerador”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021