Accumulator

Quick meaning: Accumulator is a noun meaning (literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.

Meaning

(literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.

More Meanings

1. (British) A wet-cell storage battery.
2. (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
3. (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
4. (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
5. (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
6. (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).
7. (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.

Example Sentences

He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• accumulators

Synonyms for accumulator

Depending on context, synonyms include collector, parlay, gatherer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gatherer, collector, servo, nonlinear, cell, battery.

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