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Acceleration is a fundamental concept in physics that involves the measure of the change in an object’s velocity over time. It is a vector quantity, meaning it has both magnitude (size) and direction.

The Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation promotes open source, open standards, cross-architecture software for accelerated computing. For more information, see UXLF.