accumulator

Meanings

Plural: accumulators

Noun

• a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
• a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
• (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
• One who, or that which, accumulates.
• A wet-cell storage battery.
• A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
• A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
• A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
• 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).
• A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
• 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.
• One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.
• A one way membership function.

Synonyms

accumulator register, collector, gatherer, parlay, share forward accumulator, shock absorber, storage battery

Related Words

accumulate, accumulation, accumulative