accumulator

English

Hydraulic accumulator.

Etymology

accumulate +‎ -or.
From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪ.tɚ/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

accumulator (plural accumulators)

One who, or that which, accumulates.
He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.
(Britain) A wet-cell storage battery.
Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.
(gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
(mechanics) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
(manufacturing) A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
(engineering, hydraulics) 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).
(computer science) A register in a calculator or computer used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
(finance) 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.

Synonyms

(one who or that which accumulates): collector
(betting): parlay
(finance): share forward accumulator
(hydraulics): shock absorber

Related terms

Translations

one who or that which accumulates

Bulgarian: акумула́тор (bg) m (akumulátor)
Czech: akumulátor (cs) m
Dutch: verzamelaar (nl) m
Finnish: varaaja (fi), kerääjä (fi), varasto (fi)
French: accumulateur (fr) m
German: Akkumulator (de) m
Greek: αποταμιευτής (el) m (apotamieftís), αποθησαυριστής (el) m (apothisavristís)
Indonesian: akumulator (id)
Interlingua: accumulator
Interlingue: acumulator

Irish: bailitheoir m
Italian: accumulatore (it) m
Korean: 축적자 (chukjeokja)
Malay: penumpuk
Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m
Romanian: acumulator (ro)
Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor), накопи́тель (ru) m (nakopítelʹ)
Spanish: acumulador (es) m
Swedish: ackumulator (sv)

wet-cell storage battery

Chinese:
Mandarin: 蓄電池 (zh), 蓄电池 (zh) (xùdiànchí), 電瓶 (zh), 电瓶 (zh) (diànpíng)
Czech: akumulátor (cs) m
Dutch: accu (nl) m
Esperanto: akumulatoro
Finnish: akku (fi)
French: accumulateur (fr) m
German: Akkumulator (de) m
Greek: ηλεκτρικός συσσωρευτής m (ilektrikós syssoreftís)

Hungarian: akkumulátor (hu)
Japanese: 蓄電池 (ja) (ちくでんち, chikudenchi), アキュムレータ (akyumurēta)
Korean: 축적자 (chukjeokja)
Malay: akumulator
Polish: akumulator (pl) m inan
Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m
Russian: аккумуля́тор (ru) m (akkumuljátor)
Vietnamese: bình điện

betting: collective bet on successive events

mechanics: system of elastic springs for relieving strain upon a rope

Ido: akumulilo

Russian: колле́ктор (ru) m (kolléktor)

manufacturing: vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam

Finnish: höyryakku

hydraulics: container which stores hydraulic power for release

Dutch: accumulator (nl) m
Finnish: painesäiliö

Ido: akumulatoro (io)

computer science: register for holding intermediate results

Dutch: accumulator (nl) m
Finnish: akkumulaattori (fi), (slang) akku (fi)

Greek: συσσωρευτής (el) m (syssoreftís)
Portuguese: acumulador (pt) m

finance: type of derivative contract

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Basque: ^{(please verify)} metagailu
Danish: ^{(please verify)} akkumulator (da)
Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מצבר‎ m (matzber) (2)
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} akkumulator (no)

Persian: ^{(please verify)} انباره‎ (fa) (anbareh)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ackumulator (sv)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} akü (tr), ^{(please verify)} akümülatör (tr)
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cronadur m

Latin

Verb

accumulātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of accumulō
third-person singular future passive imperative of accumulō

References

accumulator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
accumulator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
accumulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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