accumulator
IPA: ʌkjˈumjʌɫeɪtɝ
noun
- (literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.
- (Britain) A wet-cell storage battery.
- (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
- (mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
- (manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
- (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).
- (programming) A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
- (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.
- (UK, education, historical) One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
- (cryptography) A one way membership function.
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Examples of "accumulator" in Sentences
- The accumulator stores the calculated answer.
- Cavanagh put on a £5 accumulator, which is understood to have included three other matches.
- IT is more than a hundred years since the elementary principle of the storage battery or "accumulator" was detected by a Frenchman named
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.