accumulator

名词 n.
/əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, accumulates.
    — He is a great accumulator of bad jokes.
  2. A wet-cell storage battery. UK
    — Looks like it's time to recharge the accumulator again.
  3. A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.
    — 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.
  4. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
  5. A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.
  6. 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. A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
    — 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.
  8. 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.
    — 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.
  9. One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study. UK,historical
    — 1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.
  10. A one way membership function.

词形变化

accumulators plural

词源

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-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.
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