I don't think you mean 'criteria'. I think you mean three occurrences or
observations that indicate the presence of acceleration.
They are:
-- an object is speeding up
-- an object is slowing down
-- the direction of an object's motion is changing .
Any one of these changes is acceleration.
There's a single term that covers them all. It is "change in velocity".
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