ACCUMULATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accumulator mean? 

• ACCUMULATOR (noun)
  The noun ACCUMULATOR has 3 senses:

1. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

2. a voltaic battery that stores electric charge

3. (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register

  Familiarity information: ACCUMULATOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUMULATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

accumulator; collector; gatherer

Hypernyms ("accumulator" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Domain category:

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accumulator"):

conductor (the person who collects fares on a public conveyance)

gleaner (someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully)

rent collector (a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner)

Instance hyponyms:

Gardner; Isabella Stewart Gardner (United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A voltaic battery that stores electric charge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

accumulator; storage battery

Hypernyms ("accumulator" is a kind of...):

galvanic battery; voltaic battery (battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel)

Meronyms (parts of "accumulator"):

anode (the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current)

cathode (the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current)

grid; storage-battery grid (a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material)

secondary cell; storage cell (a cell that can be recharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accumulator"):

lead-acid accumulator; lead-acid battery (a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte; each cell generates about 2 volts)

nicad; nickel-cadmium accumulator (a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use)

nickel-iron accumulator; nickel-iron battery (a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

accumulator; accumulator register

Hypernyms ("accumulator" is a kind of...):

register ((computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

 Context examples 

Other examples of accumulators include capacitors, compulsators, steam accumulator, wave energy machines, pumped-storage hydroelectric plants.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

An accumulator is an apparatus by means of which energy can be stored, such as a rechargeable battery or a hydraulic accumulator.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)