accumulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: accumulators
Etymology: From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.
synonyms: collector
qualifier: literal
glosses: One who, or that which, accumulates.
examples: text: Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.
glosses: A wet-cell storage battery.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media, →ISBN:
topics: gambling
games
synonyms: parlay
glosses: A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
topics: engineering
hydraulics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: shock absorber
glosses: 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).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 139:
text: The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value.
ref: 2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014, Jerome Yen, Kin Keung Lai, Emerging Financial Derivatives, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: share forward accumulator
glosses: 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.
examples: 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.
topics: education
glosses: One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A one way membership function.
Derived terms: bioaccumulator
hyperaccumulator
orgone accumulator
steam accumulator
Related terms: accumulate
accumulation
accumulative