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Meaning of decel | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Clipping of deceleration.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
  2. Clipping of decelerationist.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Mountainhead plays out less like a drama between four tenuously connected, very rich friends, and more like a random word generator of tech and finance bro jargon – decel (deceleration, as in AI), p(doom) (the probability of an AI apocalypse), first principles.”
“Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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