Usually means: Substance that speeds up combustion.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. accelerant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. accelerant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. accelerant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Accelerant, accelerant: Wordnik
  5. accelerant: Wiktionary
  6. accelerant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. accelerant: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. accelerant: Dictionary.com
  9. Accelerant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. accelerant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. accelerant: Merriam-Webster
  12. accelerant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. accelerant: Merriam-Webster

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  2. accelerant: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (accelerant)

noun:  (chemistry) Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
noun:  In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.
noun:  A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
noun:  (figurative) Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
adjective:  Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.

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