Lexic.us

Definition of Accumulator

1. Noun. A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).

2. Noun. A voltaic battery that stores electric charge.

3. Noun. (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register.

Definition of Accumulator

1. n. One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

Definition of Accumulator

1. Noun. One who, or that which, accumulates. ¹

2. Noun. (context: British) A wet-cell storage battery. ¹

3. Noun. (context: betting) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively. ¹

4. Noun. (context: mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging. ¹

5. Noun. (context: manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam. ¹

6. Noun. (context: 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). ¹

7. Noun. (context: computer science) A register in a calculator or computer used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer. ¹

8. Noun. (context: 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accumulator

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Accumulator

1. 1. One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses. 2. An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc. 3. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accumulator

accumulated depreciation accumulates accumulating accumulating shear accumulatio accumulation accumulation analysis accumulation disease accumulation point accumulation points

accumulations accumulatios accumulative accumulatively accumulativeness accumulator (current term) accumulator register accumulators accuracies accuracy

accurate accurately accurateness accuratenesses accurize accurized accurizes accurizing accurse accursed

Literary usage of Accumulator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electrical Engineer (1890)
"This accumulator is also more quickly exhausted, and its useful capacity is ... «d "d The accumulator examined,type C, was of the same dimensions as the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"6J3 745 857 9«9 Irti »93 ing a cylindrical wrought-iron tank W, in which weights are placed to load the accumulator. At R is one of the pressure engines or ..."

3. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals: Comprising Electro by Georg Langbein (1909)
"If an accumulator is thus to be made use of, a dynamo of an adequately larger size has to be selected so that in addition to the depositing work, ..."

4. The Röntgen rays in medical work by David Walsh (1902)
"accumulator CELL. Daniell cells must consist of more than this number ... To charge at a reasonable rate three cells must be used for each accumulator cell, ..."

5. The Electrician (1883)
"THE ELECTRICAL accumulator COMPANY. THE following extract from the report of the proceedings at the general meeting of shareholders of the Electrical Power ..."

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