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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ac•cu•mu•la•tor (ə kyo̅o̅′myə lā′tər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that accumulates.
- Computinga register or electric device on an arithmetic machine, as an adding machine, cash register, or digital computer, that receives a number and produces and stores the results of arithmetic operations of the given number with other numbers.
- Electricity, British Terms[Brit.]a storage battery or storage cell.
- Hydraulicsan apparatus that stores fluid at approximately the working pressure of the hydraulic or pneumatic system in which it will be employed, so that a supply of fluid is always immediately available to the system.
- Mechanical Engineering[Mach.](in a boiler) a vessel for storing hot fluid, ready to flash into steam.
- Hydraulicsa vessel in which air is trapped and compressed by the liquid, thus storing energy to supply liquid under pressure when the demand of the system is greater than the capacity of the pump.
- Latin accumulātor, equivalent. to accumulā(re) to heap up (see accumulate) + -tor -tor
- 1685–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: accumulator /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪtə/ n
Also called: battery, storage battery a rechargeable device for storing electrical energy in the form of chemical energy, consisting of one or more separate secondary cells- Brit a collective bet, esp on four or more races, in which the stake and winnings on each successive race are carried forward to become the stake on the next, so that both stakes and winnings accumulate progressively so long as the bet continues to be a winning one
- a register in a computer or calculator used for holding the results of a computation or data transfer
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