Speedup

Quick meaning: Speedup is a noun meaning An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

Meaning

An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.

More Meanings

1. (labour, politics) An employer's demand for more output without more pay.
2. (chiefly computing) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.

Example Sentences

For the mass of new workers who had not come out of a syndicalist or craft tradition, incentive pay and the speedup idea carried relatively little negative meaning.

With constant speedup of the line and with the cold temperatures of the plant, one angry worker told me, “After ten years, people walk like they're sixty or seventy."

The strike was over a speedup of the assembly line, which in the previous week had increased from 49 to 58 cars per hour. Out of this strike emerged the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM).

The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

Word Forms

• speedups
• speed-up

Synonyms for speedup

Depending on context, synonyms include stretch-out, quickening, acceleration.

Antonyms for speedup

Common opposites include slowdown, go-slow, work-to-rule.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quickening, acceleration, accelerant, accelerator, speedwork, speeding.

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