accumulation
act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
that which is accumulated; an accumulated amount, number, or mass.
growth by continuous additions, as of interest to principal.
Origin of accumulation
1Other words from accumulation
- non·ac·cu·mu·la·tion, noun
- o·ver·ac·cu·mu·la·tion, noun
- pre·ac·cu·mu·la·tion, noun
- re·ac·cu·mu·la·tion, noun
- su·per·ac·cu·mu·la·tion, noun
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How to use accumulation in a sentence
Still, the accumulation of data about dogs provides a good foothold from which to extrapolate and reach toward answers to those questions.
Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog (Ep. 436) | Stephen J. Dubner | October 22, 2020 | FreakonomicsWealth accumulation in the tech world has been eye-popping during the pandemic as the shift of everything from work, shopping, schooling and entertainment online has boosted demand for digital services.
In recent years, climate warming, accumulation of dead wood on the forest floor and a buildup of small trees—which serve as “ladder fuels,” moving fire from the forest floor up into the canopy—have led to hotter, larger wildfires.
Healthy forests do more than just prevent wildfires | By Bales & Conklin/The Conversation | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThey temporarily put aside the gradual accumulation of undergraduate math and skipped ahead to the vanguard of the field.
Building the Mathematical Library of the Future | Kevin Hartnett | October 1, 2020 | Quanta MagazineWe can build shielding that accounts for a changing environment, but not even the best models for future debris accumulation can predict everything.
Astronauts on the ISS are hunting for the source of another mystery air leak | Neel Patel | September 30, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
For Reid, wealth accumulation has come from a steady diet of land deals and playing the market.
A brown tacky gleam of years of paint accumulation covers the three-story apartment.
The Weird Underground World of Urban Animal Husbandry | Dale Eisinger | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd if you go through enough of it, this accumulation comes to be your calling card of wisdom.
It’s Not Just the Vaccines. Jenny McCarthy’s New Book Offers More ‘Lessons’ | Tim Teeman | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn both countries, the rulers place the accumulation of wealth far ahead of the welfare of the nation.
Ends: When eyelash-ice-accumulation renders you blind, your frozen tears only compounding the problem.
So You Are Enduring a Temporarily Paralyzing Winter Storm | Kelly Williams Brown | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis Method can be readily applied to events in ancient or modern times, or to an accumulation of facts in the sciences, &c.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)If Madame Roland's letter dismissed him from office, her letter also restored him again with an enormous accumulation of power.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottHe simply revelled in it; not because he cared about money as such, but because the accumulation of wealth fascinated him.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingThe time needed for the slow accumulation of the whole series of deposits must have been very considerable.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisDoes the character of such change by the accumulation or the long pressure of the very same—not new, evils?
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham
British Dictionary definitions for accumulation
/ (əˌkjuːmjʊˈleɪʃən) /
the act or process of collecting together or becoming collected
something that has been collected, gathered, heaped, etc
finance
the continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or earnings
(in computing the yield on a bond purchased at a discount) the amount that is added to each yield to bring the cost of the bond into equality with its par value over its life: Compare amortization (def. 2)
the taking of a first and an advanced university degree simultaneously
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