Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

accumulator

/əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.70 in modern English

Syllables: ac-cu-mu-la-tor
IPA: /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who, or that which, accumulates.

noun

A wet-cell storage battery.

British usage

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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).

noun

A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"He is a great accumulator of bad jokes."
"Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again."
"The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987."
"The contents of the memory location and accumulator are NOT altered, but the Negative, Zero and Carry flags are conditioned according to the result of the subtraction."
"The function signature has changed to include the additional parameter accumulator. This parameter, in a way, takes on the job of the return value."
"This product was fairly popular among investors in Hong Kong in 2007 considering the market conditions at that time. It is an accumulator of the underlying stock with a contract period of 12 months."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin accumulātorbor. English accumulator From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: accumulātor
Suffix: accumulate

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

accumulators (plural)

Derived Forms

bioaccumulator hyperaccumulator

Phrases

orgone accumulator steam accumulator

Frequently Paired Words

accumulate accumulation accumulative

Synonyms

collector parlay shock absorber share forward accumulator accumulator register storage battery gatherer

Questions

How do you pronounce accumulator?: The recorded pronunciation is /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/.
What does accumulator mean?: One who, or that which, accumulates.
Where does accumulator come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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