accumulator

== English == === Etymology === From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate +‎ -or. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/ === Noun === accumulator (plural accumulators) (literal) One who, or that which, accumulates. Synonym: collector (British) A wet-cell storage battery. (gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively. Synonym: parlay (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). Synonym: shock absorber (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. Synonym: share forward accumulator (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. (cryptography) A one way membership function. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== accumulate accumulation accumulative ==== Translations ==== === 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/ Hyphenation: ac‧cu‧mu‧la‧tor Rhymes: -aːtɔr === Noun === accumulator m (plural accumulatoren, no diminutive) (dated, now chiefly historical) battery, accumulator Synonym: accu ==== Derived terms ==== accu ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: akumulator == Latin == === Alternative forms === adcumulātor === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ak.kʊ.mʊˈɫaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ak.ku.muˈlaː.tor] === Etymology 1 === accumulō (“to amass”) +‎ -tor ==== Noun ==== accumulātor m (genitive accumulātōris); third declension one who heaps up, amasses, or hoards ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== accumulātor 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.