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Definition of Accumulation
1. Noun. An increase by natural growth or addition.
Specialized synonyms: Backup, Buildup, Deposit, Deposition
Generic synonyms: Growth, Increase, Increment
Derivative terms: Accrete, Accretionary
2. Noun. Several things grouped together or considered as a whole.
Generic synonyms: Group, Grouping
Specialized synonyms: Procession, Pharmacopoeia, String, Wardrobe, Wardrobe, Population, Universe, Armamentarium, Art Collection, Backlog, Battery, Block, Book, Rule Book, Book, Bottle Collection, Bunch, Caboodle, Lot, Coin Collection, Collage, Content, Ensemble, Tout Ensemble, Corpus, Crop, Tenantry, Findings, Flagging, Flinders, Pack, Deal, Hand, Long Suit, Herbarium, Stamp Collection, Statuary, Sum, Sum Total, Summation, Agglomeration, Gimmickry, Nuclear Club, Agglomerate, Cumulation, Cumulus, Heap, Mound, Pile, Mass, Combination, Congregation, Hit Parade, Judaica, Kludge, Library, Program Library, Subroutine Library, Library, Mythology, Biology, Biota, Fauna, Zoology, Petting Zoo, Set, Victoriana, Category, Class, Family, Job Lot, Bundle, Package, Packet, Parcel, Defence, Defense, Defense Lawyers, Defense Team, Prosecution, Planting, Signage, Gaap, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Pantheon, Free World, Third World, Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, Oort Cloud, Galaxy, Extragalactic Nebula, Galaxy, Fleet, Fleet, Fleet, Repertoire, Repertory, Repertoire, Repertory, Assortment, Miscellanea, Miscellany, Mixed Bag, Mixture, Motley, Potpourri, Salmagundi, Smorgasbord, Variety, Batch, Clutch, Batch, Rogue's Gallery, Exhibition, Expo, Exposition, Convoy, Traffic, Air Power, Aviation, Botany, Flora, Vegetation, Jurisprudence, Law, Menagerie, Data, Information, Ana, Mail, Post, Treasure, Treasure Trove, Trinketry, Troponomy, Troponymy, Smithereens
Specialized synonyms: Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library, Magi, Wise Men
Derivative terms: Accumulate, Assemble
3. Noun. The act of accumulating.
Generic synonyms: Increase, Step-up
Specialized synonyms: Buildup
Derivative terms: Accrue, Accrue, Accrue, Accumulate, Accumulate
4. Noun. (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation.
Generic synonyms: Earnings, Lucre, Net, Net Income, Net Profit, Profit, Profits
Specialized synonyms: Fund, Stock, Store, Backlog, Reserve, Stockpile
Definition of Accumulation
1. n. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
Definition of Accumulation
1. Noun. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile. ¹
2. Noun. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount. ¹
3. Noun. A mass of something piled up or collected. ¹
4. Noun. (legal) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. ¹
5. Noun. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings. ¹
6. Noun. (context: finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accumulation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Accumulation
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The action or process of accumulating, state of being or having accumulated, a collecting together.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accumulation
Literary usage of Accumulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"THE SO-CALLED PRIMITIVE accumulation. CHAPTER XXVI. ... This primitive accumulation
plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"the uses and in the accumulation of capital, would seem to poin to a steadying
cause — a marginal supply price to which rate of return on the whole has ..."
3. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"This accumulation must evidently be previous to his applying his industry for so
long a time ... As the accumulation of stock must, in the nature of things, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"If accumulation is allowed in any degree, it is impossible to say, ...
The accumulation therefore was not necessarily to continue longer than twenty-three ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"accumulation of Latex in Payer's Patches and Its Subsequent Appearance in Villi
and M ... side (the dome) was characterized by an accumulation of particles. ..."
6. Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social by John Stuart Mill (1852)
"Production comes to a pause, either because the effective desire of accumulation
is not sufficient to give rise to any further increase of capital, ..."
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