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Meaning of decel | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Clipping of deceleration.
  2. Clipping of decelerationist.

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 jargondecel (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/accideology 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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