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Accumulator   /əkjˈumjəlˌeɪtər/   Listen
Accumulator

noun
1.
A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).  Synonyms: collector, gatherer.
2.
A voltaic battery that stores electric charge.  Synonym: storage battery.
3.
(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register.  Synonym: accumulator register.



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"Accumulator" Quotes from Famous Books



... GEORGE, LORD, born at Newcastle, produced the hydraulic accumulator and the hydraulic crane, established the Elswick engine works in the suburbs of his native city, devoted his attention to the improvement of heavy ordnance, invented the Armstrong gun, which he got the Government ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... upon, I immediately proceeded to work. I received five hundred piastres from the capiji for my shop; for he also had been a great accumulator of his savings, and everybody allowed that money was never laid out to better advantage, since the shop was sure to enjoy a great run of business, owing to its excellent situation. I therefore became worth in all about one hundred and ten tomauns in ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier

... handsome on Moya out of the portion Madame gives him on his marriage. My poor little girl, as you know, will get nothing from me but a few old bits and trinkets and a father's blessing,—the same doesn't go for much in these days. I have been a better dispenser than accumulator, like ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote



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