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Unless what they meant is "stop accelerating quite so much" and not "slow down".


Both are examples of deceleration, but in the latter case, the vector is in a different direction.

[edit] Apparently I'm wrong. All the definitions of deceleration I can find are actually negative acceleration.


The next four derivatives after acceleration are jerk, snap*, crackle, and pop, respectively.

(What you were describing is negative jerk.)

* snap is equivalently called jounce.


That’s what I meant.




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