How to Use speedup in a Sentence

speedup

noun

• I'd like to see some speedup in the selection process.
• That would mean a speedup of about a factor of 1000 in the experiment’s scan rate.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• That said, there’s one notable exception to the global speedup of oceans.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
• Just as crucial, the speedup in the deadline gives experts less time to check the data than ever before.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
• Yet that task was contrived to show a speedup and was of no inherent interest.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• People in Hollywood saw the largest speedup, shaving two minutes off their hauls to work.
  — David Schutz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
• The speedup is an attempt to get the vote in before state legislation changing the rules would take effect.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• Scientists aren't certain of all the consequences of this speedup yet.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Either way, Hu thinks the oscillations could be responsible for at most one-third of the wind speedup.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 5 Feb. 2020
• The nearby Pine Island Glacier has similarly seen a flow speedup of about 70 percent.
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Humans—from the dawn of our existence to today—seem to live right around the cosmic era that this slowdown in expansion turned into a speedup.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
• But the interference that causes the quantum speedup also wipes out all record of the paths the algorithm traverses on its way to the exit.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
• The seismic speedup at the Moho is thought to reflect the lack of water or calcium and aluminum minerals in mantle rocks.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 25 May 2023
• The staggering speedup aside, the neural net seemed to have gained a deeper understanding of the data than expected.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
• What emerged was a sense of the sorts of things that people are hoping will be able to demonstrate a clear speedup when run on a sufficiently advanced quantum annealer.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2019
• The speedup was prompted by two derailments in the station this spring that wreaked havoc on rail service between Boston and Washington, D.C.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2017
• Whatever is causing this speedup has been called dark energy.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• Unfortunately, the new study’s threefold speedup isn’t enough.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• In the age of the global chip supply shortage, any speedup in chip manufacturing and QA testing is a potential lifeline.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2024
• Hamlington and colleagues first reported signs of the speedup in 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 18 Nov. 2020
• Lawmakers stood up to Newsom and adamantly refused to consider his tunnel speedup plan, forcing him to back down and withdraw the proposal.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• The rest of the infrastructure speedup package was left for further negotiation.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• Antigen tests, which immobilize antibodies on a test strip, promise an even greater speedup.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Aug. 2020
• Either would provide a huge speedup compared to an older, 4G-only iPhone–assuming your carrier has mid-band 5G in your usual whereabouts.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Years ago, Fontanini and his team found direct neural evidence of this speedup effect in the gustatory cortex, the part of the brain responsible for taste perception.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2019
• When the lattice dimension was too low, his algorithm couldn’t take full advantage of the speedup from multiplying smaller numbers.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• The y-axis shows the speedup for Codon implementations over CPython implementations.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023
• Without a significant speedup, vaccinating enough people in the United States to achieve herd immunity will take years, not months.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2020
• Either recent iPhone would provide a huge speedup compared to an older, 4G-only iPhone, assuming your carrier has mid-band 5G in your usual whereabouts.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Add in various optimization techniques and the speedup increases dramatically.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024