accumulation

From Middle English acumulacyon, from Middle French accumulation and its etymon, Latin accumulātiō, accumulātiōnis. By surface analysis, accumulate +‎ -ion. First attested in the late 15th century. Doublet of accumulatio.

• IPA^(key): /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: ac‧cu‧mu‧la‧tion

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.

   an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors

   • 1958 August, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 520:

     At the lowest point, a short length of tunnel was driven alongside the up line, with a cross passage, to serve as a sump and pump house for dealing with any accumulation of water.

   • 1961 April, I. A. Horowitz, “Readers' Games”, in Chess Review:

     Accumulation of tiny, positional blunders adds up to a ruptured Kingside.

3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
   • 1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎^[1], volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 129:

     After such an accumulation of mistakes in the treatment of lexical items, it comes as no surprise that the section on word formation on p. 133 is equally poor.

4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
7. (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

• (accounting): retained earnings

• decumulation

• accumulate
• accumulator

Borrowed from Latin accumulātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃/

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accumulation f (plural accumulations)

1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

• accumuler

• “accumulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012