accelerant / ækˈsɛl ər ənt /

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accelerant 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. something that speeds up a process.
  2. Chemistry. accelerator.
  3. a substance that accelerates the spread of fire or makes a fire more intense: Arson was suspected when police found accelerants at the scene of the fire.

更多accelerant例句

  1. It was like an accelerant on the embers of anti-Enlightenment thinking, encouraging a basic skepticism of science, even distrust of elemental structures of thought, such as cause and effect.
  2. The virus, as Scott Galloway put it, was an accelerant, allowing countless companies to innovate with an abandon they never would have thought possible.
  3. While people across the industry have talked about coronavirus as an accelerant which sped media and marketing down paths they were just starting to tread, much of what happened during this year’s Cyber 5 was driven by highly unusual factors.
  4. Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides.
  5. Also in the apartment were glass jars containing what is believed to be accelerant, black gunpowder, and bullets.
  6. Police said Powell also attacked his sons with a hatchet or small ax, before igniting the accelerant-fueled blaze.
  7. It is believed that Burkhart used a fire accelerant similar to charcoal to start the fires.