accumulation

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 15th century.
• accumulate +‎ -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə.ˌkjuːm.jə.ˈleɪ.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.
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

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 f, opeenhoping (nl) f
• Esperanto: amasigo
• Estonian: kogumine, kuhjumine
• Finnish: kertyminen (fi), kasaantuminen, akkumulaatio (fi)
• German: Anhäufung (de) f
• Hungarian: felhalmozás (hu)
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: tiomsú m
• Italian: accumulazione (it) 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)

concurrence of several titles to the same proof

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

continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings

• Catalan: acumulació f
• Finnish: karttuminen (fi)
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• German: Anhäufung (de) f
• Russian: накопле́ние (ru) n (nakoplénije)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} צבירה f (tzvira)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} accumulation
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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} accumulazione (it)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

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.