English
accelerostat
From accelero- + -stat.
Formed from accelero- + -stat
Proto-Indo-European *kel- ‘to drive, particularly of animals’
Latin celer ‘fast, swift, quick, speedy, fleet’
Latin celerō ‘to quicken, accelerate’
Latin accelerō ‘to quicken, hasten, speed up, accelerate’
English accelero-
The story
Coined by Estonian biochemists Paalme et al. in 1995.
Today it means
noun A continuous culture in which, after reaching a steady state as in a chemostat, dilution rate is increased smoothly at a constant rate of acceleration.
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Etymograph / accelerostat