1 Many instances of performance-based design are approved for their adherence to safety principles. 2  Ceremony implies honor, and honor implies an adherence to traditions. Many instances of performance-based design are approved for their adherence to safety principles. 2  Ceremony implies honor, and honor implies an adherence to traditions.
Acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity. Sports announcers will occasionally say that a person is accelerating if he/she is moving fast. Yet acceleration has nothing to do with going fast.
In everyday conversation, to accelerate means to speed up. The accelerator in a car can in fact cause it to speed up. The greater the acceleration, the greater the change in velocity over a given time. The formal definition of acceleration is consistent with these notions, but more comprehensive.