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

   Synonym: collector

   He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.

2. (British) 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

• bioaccumulator
• hyperaccumulator
• 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) (anbâštgar)
• Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m
• Romanian: acumulator (ro)
• Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor), накопи́тель (ru) m (nakopítelʹ)
• Spanish: acumulador (es) m
• Swedish: ackumulator (sv)
• Ukrainian: накопи́чувач (uk) m (nakopýčuvač), нагрома́джувач m (nahromádžuvač)

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) (anbâštgar)
• Polish: akumulator (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m
• Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor)
• Turkish: akümülatör (tr), akü (tr)
• Vietnamese: bình điện (vi)

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) (anbâre)
• 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

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• adcumulātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak.ku.muˈlaː.tor/, [äkːʊmʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate 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.