Noun: accumulator u'kyoo-myu,ley-tu(r)
- Someone or something that accumulates
"he's an accumulator of bad jokes"
- A voltaic battery that stores electric charge
"The solar panels charged the accumulator during the day to provide power at night";
- storage battery
- (computing) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
"The CPU used the accumulator register to perform arithmetic operations";
- accumulator register
- (tax) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
"The accumulator went door to door collecting overdue payments";
- collector, gatherer
Derived forms: accumulators
Type of: galvanic battery, register, voltaic battery, worker
Encyclopedia: Accumulator