pemercepat

Pemercepat is an Indonesian term that denotes an agent or device that speeds up a process or activity. It can refer to a physical device, a chemical additive, a software tool, or an organizational program designed to increase speed, efficiency, or throughput. The word is formed from the prefix pe-, indicating an agent, and cepat, meaning fast.

In chemistry and materials science, a pemercepat (pemercepat reaksi) is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction. In polymer chemistry, accelerators speed up processes such as vulcanization or cross-linking, reducing production times and enabling specific material properties.

In information technology, hardware accelerators and software tools act as pemercepat by taking on compute-intensive tasks and speeding data processing. Examples include graphics processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), as well as optimized algorithms and libraries that improve performance without changing the underlying software.

In business and project management, acceleration initiatives aim to hasten growth, delivery, or transformation. Indonesian usage often prefers the phrase accelerator program (program akselerator) for startup ecosystems, but pemercepat can be used in a general sense to describe any factor that speeds a process or outcome.

See also: akselerator, akselerasi.