accumulation

See also: Accumulation

English

Etymology

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 *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin accumulātiōder.

Middle French accumulationbor.

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Latin accumulātiōbor.

Middle English acumulacyon

English 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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Hyphenation: ac‧cu‧mu‧la‧tion
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
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.
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.
(law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
(accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
(finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
(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

Related terms

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)
Hindi: भंडारण m (bhaṇḍāraṇ), संचयन (hi) m (sañcyan)
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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