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Noun: accumulator  u'kyoo-myu,ley-tu(r)
  1. Someone or something that accumulates
    "he's an accumulator of bad jokes"
     
  2. A voltaic battery that stores electric charge
    "The solar panels charged the accumulator during the day to provide power at night";
    - storage battery
     
  3. (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
     
  4. (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