Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that accumulates.
- noun A register or electric circuit in a calculator or computer, in which the results of arithmetical and logical operations are formed.
- noun Chiefly British An automobile storage battery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which gathers, accumulates, or amasses.
- noun One who takes university degrees by accumulation (which see).
- noun Anything used for collecting and storing energy, etc.
- noun In electricity: A condenser (which see). A storage battery (which see, under
battery ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
- noun (Mech.) 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.
- noun A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
accumulates . - noun UK A
wet-cell storage battery. - noun gambling A collective
bet on successive events, with bothstake andwinnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively. - noun mechanics A system of elastic springs for
relieving the strain upon a rope, as indeep-sea dredging . - noun manufacturing A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
- noun 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).
- noun computer science A
register in a calculator or computer used for holding the intermediate results of acomputation ordata transfer . - noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
- noun a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- noun a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
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Examples
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Lastly, by treating the exhausted battery as an accumulator, that is to say, by passing a current through it in the opposite direction, we restore the various products to their original condition; the copper absorbs oxygen, and the alkali is restored, while the zinc is deposited; but the spongy state of the deposited zinc necessitates its being submitted to a process, or to its being received upon a mercury support.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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The device will be hooked up to an Iodine Crew Water Container on the station and water will be transferred into an accumulator, which is a plastic bag inside a hard container.
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Cavanagh put on a £5 accumulator, which is understood to have included three other matches.
unknown title 2009
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Cavanagh put on a £5 accumulator, which is understood to have included three other matches.
unknown title 2009
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The trades were made through an arrangement known as an "accumulator" that gave Citic Pacific limited upside but unlimited downside, and they turned bad when the Australian dollar unexpectedly fell against the U.S. dollar.
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The trades were made through a so-called "accumulator" that gave Citic Pacific limited upside but unlimited downside, and they turned sour when the Australian dollar unexpectedly fell against the U.S. dollar.
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Called an "accumulator," it is essentially a contract that obliges investors to purchase a security, currency or commodity at a fixed price -- often set at a discount to prevailing market rates -- at regular intervals.
Asian Investors 'Accumulate' Big Losses on Risky Contracts 2008
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IT is more than a hundred years since the elementary principle of the storage battery or "accumulator" was detected by a Frenchman named
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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At one lantern show at Paro Dzong in Bhutan, an "accumulator" blew up scorching White's face and badly singing his eyebrow, eyelashes and moustache.
Phayul Latest News 2010
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At one lantern show at Paro Dzong in Bhutan, an "accumulator" blew up scorching White's face and badly singing his eyebrow, eyelashes and moustache.
Phayul Latest News 2010
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