different between accumulation vs ident

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?nt/

Etymology 1

From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe +? -and and/or ithe +? -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.

Alternative forms

• eident (Scotland)

Adjective

ident (comparative more ident, superlative most ident)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Diligent; persistent.

Derived terms

• idently

Etymology 2

Shortened form of identification.

Noun

ident (plural idents)

1. Identification.
2. (radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
4. Identifier. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• denti-, detin, indet., teind, tiend, tined