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deceleratingly

deceleratingly adverb: in a decelerating manner.

Adverb

deceleratingly (comparative more deceleratingly, superlative most deceleratingly)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) In a decelerating manner.
    • Such a dome could then be retrorocketed to subside deceleratingly into the Earth's atmosphere, within which it will lower only slowly, due to its extremely low comprehensive specific gravity and its vast webbing surface, permitting it to be aimingly-landed slowly, very much like an air-floatable...1983, R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
    • It disappears between t = ±1, appears again as a spherical point at t = 1 and then, via Equation 2, it deceleratingly expands exclusively in the ±x directions as t increases in value.2007, Gerald Lebau, A Flower for Einstein, page 178

Forms of deceleratingly

comparativemore deceleratingly
superlativemost deceleratingly

Origin of deceleratingly

From decelerating + -ly.

Questions about deceleratingly

What does deceleratingly mean?
Deceleratingly means in a decelerating manner.
What part of speech is deceleratingly?
Deceleratingly is an adverb.

Words near deceleratingly in the dictionary

  1. decel
  2. decelerate
  3. decelerated
  4. decelerates
  5. decelerating
  6. deceleratingly
  7. deceleration
  8. decelerational
  9. decelerationism
  10. decelerationist
  11. decelerationists

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