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accumulator

noun
/əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin accumulātorbor. English accumulator From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

  1. borrowed from accumulātor

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, accumulates.

    • He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.

  2. A wet-cell storage battery.

    • Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.

  3. A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward…

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

    • 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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

    2. A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.

    3. A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid…

      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).

    4. A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data…

      A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

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

    5. A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying…

      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.

      • 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.

    6. One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.

    7. A one way membership function.

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Derived

bioaccumulator, hyperaccumulator, orgone accumulator, steam accumulator

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for accumulator. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA