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English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 15th century.
• accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.

3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
7. (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

Synonyms

• (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

• decumulation

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulator

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/

Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

Related terms

• accumuler

Further reading

• “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin accumul?tor, agent noun of accumul? (“pile up”), accumulate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?kjum.j?.?le?.t?/

Noun

accumulator (plural accumulators)

1. (literally) One who, or that which, accumulates.

   Synonym: collector

2. (Britain) A wet-cell storage battery.

3. (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.

   Synonym: parlay

   • 2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media (?ISBN)

     The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.

4. (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
5. (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
6. (engineering, hydraulics) A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).

   Synonym: shock absorber

7. (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
   • 1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 139:

     The contents of the memory location and accumulator are NOT altered, but the Negative, Zero and Carry flags are conditioned according to the result of the subtraction.

   • 2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 122:

     The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value.

8. (finance) A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price, which the buyer is obligated to buy.

   Synonym: share forward accumulator

   • 2014, Jerome Yen, Kin Keung Lai, Emerging Financial Derivatives, Routledge (?ISBN)

     This product was fairly popular among investors in Hong Kong in 2007 considering the market conditions at that time. It is an accumulator of the underlying stock with a contract period of 12 months.

9. (Britain, education, historical) One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
   • 1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses

     The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.

10. (cryptography) A one way membership function.

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulation
• accumulative

Translations

Further reading

• accumulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Alternative forms

• accumulateur (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French accumulateur, from Latin accumul?tor. The spelling and pronunciation was subsequently adapted to Latin or English accumulator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ky.my?la?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

accumulator m (plural accumulatoren)

1. (dated, now chiefly historical) battery, accumulator

   Synonym: accu

Derived terms

• accu

Latin

Verb

accumul?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of accumul?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of accumul?

References

• accumulator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accumulator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accumulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette