How to Use speedup in a Sentence

speedup

noun
  • I'd like to see some speedup in the selection process.
  • Pritchard sees this speedup as the killer AI climate app.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That said, there’s one notable exception to the global speedup of oceans.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Yet that task was contrived to show a speedup and was of no inherent interest.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Scientists aren't certain of all the consequences of this speedup yet.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Whatever is causing this speedup has been called dark energy.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Whatever is causing this speedup has been called dark energy.
    — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • People in Hollywood saw the largest speedup, shaving two minutes off their hauls to work.
    — David Schutz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • That would mean a speedup of about a factor of 1000 in the experiment’s scan rate.
    — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
  • 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
  • Here the speedup ranged from 16 to 71, again with almost no loss of accuracy.
    — Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Unfortunately, the new study’s threefold speedup isn’t enough.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Speed slowdown and speedup are also possible from a clip's Properties menu.
    — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • For now this effect is stronger, delaying how soon the rotational speedup will overtake the tidal slowdown.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Antigen tests, which immobilize antibodies on a test strip, promise an even greater speedup.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • And an 18 percent speedup might not seem dramatic, but for giant models, that improvement can save lots of time and money.
    — Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 rest of the infrastructure speedup package was left for further negotiation.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • The nearby Pine Island Glacier has similarly seen a flow speedup of about 70 percent.
    — Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • In theory, the approach should lead to significant speedups on future quantum computers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • As such, a quantum machine learning circuit may experience a speedup even with relatively few ancillas.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2022
  • 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

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