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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



... of our daily life. It would indeed be conceited on our part to claim that we, who are the originators of this new science and its new conclusions, deserve alone the credit for its existence. The brain of the scientist is rather a sort of electrical accumulator, which feels and assimilates the vibrations and heart-beats of life, its splendor and its shame, and derives therefrom the conviction that it must of necessity provide for definite social wants. And on the other hand, it would ...
— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... we illustrate herewith offers some arrangements that are all its own as regards the process of concentrating the light. It is lighted, in fact, by a small incandescent lamp of 2 candle-power, placed within the apparatus and supplied by an accumulator. The reflector is represented by a portion of an ellipse so calculated that one of the foci corresponds to the lamp and the other to the extremity of the instrument. A commutator, B, permits of establishing ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various



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