accumulator

accumulator

English

hydraulic accumulator (6)

Etymology

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪ.tɚ/

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Noun

accumulator (plural accumulators)

1. (literally) One who, or that which, accumulates.

   Synonym: collector

   He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.

2. (Britain) A wet-cell storage battery.

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

3. (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.

   Synonym: parlay

   • 2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media, →ISBN:

     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.

4. (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
5. (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
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).

   Synonym: shock absorber

7. (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
   • 1986, Jules H. Gilder, Apple IIc and IIe Assembly Language, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 139:

     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.

   • 2011, Oliver Sturm, Functional Programming in C#, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:

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

8. (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.

   Synonym: share forward accumulator

   • 2014, Jerome Yen; Kin Keung Lai, Emerging Financial Derivatives, Routledge, →ISBN:

     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.

9. (UK, education, historical) One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
   • 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.

10. (cryptography) A one way membership function.

Derived terms

• orgone accumulator
• steam accumulator

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulation
• accumulative

Translations

one who or that which accumulates

Bulgarian: акумула́тор (bg) m (akumulátor) Czech: akumulátor (cs) m Dutch: verzamelaar (nl) m Finnish: varaaja (fi), kerääjä (fi), varasto (fi) French: accumulateur (fr) m, accumulatrice (fr) f German: Akkumulator (de) m Greek: αποταμιευτής (el) m (apotamieftís), αποθησαυριστής (el) m (apothisavristís) Indonesian: akumulator (id) Interlingua: accumulator Irish: bailitheoir m Italian: accumulatore (it) m, accumulatrice f Korean: 축적자 (chukjeokja) Malay: penumpuk (ms) Persian: انباشتگر‎ (fa) (anbāštgar) Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m Romanian: acumulator (ro) Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor), накопи́тель (ru) m (nakopítelʹ) Spanish: acumulador (es) m Swedish: ackumulator (sv)

wet-cell storage battery

Afrikaans: akkumlator Azerbaijani: akkumulyator Chinese: Mandarin: 蓄電池／蓄电池 (zh) (xùdiànchí), 電瓶／电瓶 (zh) (diànpíng) Czech: akumulátor (cs) m Dutch: accu (nl) m Esperanto: akumulatoro Finnish: akku (fi) French: accumulateur (fr) m German: Akkumulator (de) m Greek: ηλεκτρικός συσσωρευτής m (ilektrikós syssoreftís) Hungarian: akkumulátor (hu) Japanese: 蓄電池 (ja) (ちくでんち, chikudenchi), アキュムレータ (akyumurēta) Korean: 축적자 (chukjeokja) Malay: akumulator (ms) Persian: انباشتگر‎ (fa) (anbāštgar) Polish: akumulator (pl) m inan Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor) Turkish: akümülatör (tr), akü (tr) Vietnamese: bình điện

betting: collective bet on successive events

mechanics: system of elastic springs for relieving strain upon a rope

Ido: akumulilo Russian: колле́ктор (ru) m (kolléktor)

manufacturing: vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam

Finnish: höyryakku

hydraulics: container which stores hydraulic power for release

Dutch: accumulator (nl) m Finnish: painesäiliö Ido: akumulatoro (io)

computer science: register for holding intermediate results

Dutch: accumulator (nl) m Esperanto: akumulejo Finnish: akku (fi), akkumulaattori (fi) German: Akkumulator (de) m Greek: συσσωρευτής (el) m (syssoreftís) Polish: akumulator (pl) m Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m

finance: type of derivative contract

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Basque: (please verify) metagailu Danish: (please verify) akkumulator (da) Hebrew: (please verify) מצבר‎ m (matzber) (2) Norwegian: (please verify) akkumulator (no) Persian: (please verify) انباره‎ (fa) (anbareh) Swedish: (please verify) ackumulator (sv) Turkish: (please verify) akü (tr), (please verify) akümülatör (tr) Welsh: (please verify) cronadur m

Further reading

• accumulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• accumulateur (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French accumulateur, from Latin accumulātor. The spelling and pronunciation was subsequently adapted to Latin or English accumulator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.ky.myˈlaː.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: ac‧cu‧mu‧la‧tor
• Rhymes: -aːtɔr

Noun

accumulator m (plural accumulatoren)

1. (dated, now chiefly historical) battery, accumulator

   Synonym: accu

Derived terms

• accu

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Latin

Alternative forms

• adcumulātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak.ku.muˈlaː.tor/, [äkːʊmʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ak.ku.muˈla.tor/, [äkːumuˈläːt̪or]

Etymology 1

accumulō (“to amass”) +‎ -tor

Noun

accumulātor m (genitive accumulātōris); third declension

1. one who heaps up, amasses, or hoards

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	accumulātor	accumulātōrēs
Genitive	accumulātōris	accumulātōrum
Dative	accumulātōrī	accumulātōribus
Accusative	accumulātōrem	accumulātōrēs
Ablative	accumulātōre	accumulātōribus
Vocative	accumulātor	accumulātōrēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

accumulātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of accumulō

References

• “accumulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “accumulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accumulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette