Definitions for accumulator
əˈkyu myəˌleɪ tərac·cu·mu·la·tor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collector, gatherer, accumulatornoun

   a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

2. storage battery, accumulatornoun

   a voltaic battery that stores electric charge

3. accumulator, accumulator registernoun

   (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. accumulatornoun

   One who, or that which, accumulates.

   He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.

2. accumulatornoun

   A wet-cell storage battery.

   Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.

3. accumulatornoun

   A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.

4. accumulatornoun

   A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

5. accumulatornoun

   A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.

6. accumulatornoun

   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).

7. accumulatornoun

   A register in a calculator or computer used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

8. accumulatornoun

   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.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accumulatornoun

   He that accumulates; a gatherer or heaper together.

   Etymology: from accumulate.

   Injuries may fall upon the passive man, yet there would be no broils and quarrels, the great accumulators and multipliers of injuries; which demonstrates how unjustly meekness is charged with so much as accidental production of them. Decay of Piety.

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1. accumulator

   An accumulator is a storage device or register in a computer or calculator where intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored. It plays a crucial role in improving the processing speed by reducing the need to access main memory for frequently used data. Also, in the energy industry, an accumulator refers to a device that stores energy or fluid power for conversion into controlled motion.

2. accumulator

   An accumulator is a type of register, storage or location in a computer or digital system that collects and holds data or values, often for the purpose of arithmetic or logical operations. This process typically involves accumulating, or adding up, consecutive numbers or values to achieve a total sum. The term can also be used in various other fields, like hydraulics or mechanics, to refer to a device that accumulates energy or fluid.

3. accumulator

   An accumulator is a type of register in a computer's CPU that collects and stores data temporarily during processing. It gathers and holds intermediate results before these are moved to the computer's memory storage. Alternatively, in the context of machinery or engineering, an accumulator can refer to an apparatus that collects energy or fluid and stores it for gradual release when needed.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accumulatornoun

   one who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses

2. Accumulatornoun

   an apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc

3. Accumulatornoun

   a system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging

4. Etymology: [L.]

FreebaseRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Accumulator

   In a computer's central processing unit, an accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored. Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation to main memory, perhaps only to be read right back again for use in the next operation. Access to main memory is slower than access to a register like the accumulator because the technology used for the large main memory is slower than that used for a register. The canonical example for accumulator use is summing a list of numbers. The accumulator is initially set to zero, then each number in turn is read and added to the value in the accumulator. Only when all numbers have been added is the result held in the accumulator written to main memory or to another, non-accumulator, CPU register. An accumulator machine, also called a 1-operand machine, or a CPU with accumulator-based architecture, is a kind of CPU where, although it may have several registers, the CPU mostly stores the results of calculations in one special register, typically called "the accumulator". Historically almost all early computers were accumulator machines; and many microcontrollers still popular as of 2010 are basically accumulator machines.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accumulator

   a hydraulic press for storing up water at a high pressure; also a device for storing up electric energy.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. accumulator

   1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for register is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in ‘A’ derive from historical use of the term accumulator (and not, actually, from ‘arithmetic’). Confusingly, though, an ‘A’ register name prefix may also stand for address, as for example on the Motorola 680x0 family. 2. A register being used for arithmetic or logic (as opposed to addressing or a loop index), especially one being used to accumulate a sum or count of many items. This use is in context of a particular routine or stretch of code. “The FOOBAZ routine uses A3 as an accumulator.” 3. One's in-basket (esp. among old-timers who might use sense 1). “You want this reviewed? Sure, just put it in the accumulator.” (See stack.)

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Accumulator

   (a) A term sometimes applied to the secondary or storage battery. (See Battery, Secondary.) (b) See Accumulator, Electrostatic (c) See Accumulator, Water Dropping. (d) See Wheel, Barlow's

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of accumulator in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of accumulator in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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