Sentence examples for poor acceleration from inspiring English sources

D), next to the restaurant of that name at Fifth-second Street, is reported to have mediocre handling and poor acceleration (zero to fifty in a disappointing nine minutes), but its hefty appearance may intimidate other entries into veering off course".

Vehicles maintain lesser LC with heavy vehicles than with their own vehicle types due to their poor acceleration characteristics and maneuverability.

But the changes the software made to the engines to get them to operate within the legal emissions limits while being tested will cause the car to either have poor acceleration or poor gas mileage.

defer.add img); Heavy Karts: Have poor acceleration but have the highest overall top speeds.

This eases operation, but results in poorer acceleration, greater fuel consumption and severely decreased ability of the driver to use engine braking, which can be very dangerous on long downward slopes.

Until the appearance of variable-pitch propellers in the 1930s, the speed of landplanes was limited by the lengths of existing runways, since the flat pitch of high-speed propellers produced poor takeoff acceleration.

Abnormalities during SP common in both schizophrenic patients and their relatives were reported by Ross et al.[24]): schizophrenic patients showed low gain and increased rates of CUS [24], [25]; other studies reported trouble in pursuing very fast targets, namely low pursuit gain and poor initial acceleration compared to control subjects [26].

Indeed, while the visual system is very accurate in velocity estimates, it is rather poor in acceleration estimates.

The reviewers described the cars as unsuitable for highway patrol, noting poor steering and acceleration.

Our findings indicate that measuring upper body movement provides unique information regarding postural control in PD and that poor attenuation of acceleration from the pelvis to the head contributes to impaired head control.

It might be assumed that the same mechanisms could be responsible for poor attenuation of accelerations through the spine in PD.