accumulation

See also: Accumulation

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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

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, 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.

Synonyms

• (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

• decumulation

Derived terms

• accumulational
• accumulation point
• antiaccumulation
• bioaccumulation
• coaccumulation
• deaccumulation
• geoaccumulation
• hydroaccumulation
• hyperaccumulation
• lymphoaccumulation
• misaccumulation
• myeloaccumulation
• nonaccumulation
• overaccumulation
• photoaccumulation
• phytoaccumulation
• preaccumulation
• reaccumulation

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulator

Translations

act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated

Bulgarian: натрупване (bg) (natrupvane) Catalan: acumulació f Dutch: accumulatie (nl) f, opstapeling (nl) f, opeenhoping (nl) f Esperanto: amasigo Estonian: kogumine, kuhjumine Finnish: kertyminen (fi), kasaantuminen (fi), akkumulaatio (fi), kerääntyminen (fi) German: Anhäufung (de) f Greek: συσσώρευση (el) f (syssórefsi) Hebrew: אגירה f (agirá), צבירה f (tsvirá) Hungarian: felhalmozás (hu) Irish: tiomsú m Italian: accumulazione (it) f, accumulo (it) m Latin: accumulatio f Polish: akumulacja (pl) f Portuguese: acumulação (pt) f, acúmulo (pt) m Quechua: qisa Romanian: acumulare (ro) f Russian: накопле́ние (ru) n (nakoplénije) Spanish: acumulación (es) f Swedish: ackumulation (sv), ackumulering (sv) Tocharian B: kraupalñe

concurrence of several titles to the same proof

Finnish: konkurrenssi (fi) German: Konkurrenz (de) f

continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings

Catalan: acumulació f Finnish: karttuminen (fi) German: Anhäufung (de) f Hebrew: צבירה f (tsvirá) Polish: akumulacja (pl) f Russian: накопле́ние (ru) n (nakoplénije)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

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

Related terms

• accumuler

Further reading

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