| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To cumulate, collect, gather, assemble or concentrate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To accrue or augment. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To stack, heap or pile. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To treasure, hoard or stockpile. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To save, economise, economize or scrimp. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To reserve, store, stock or warehouse. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To keep or conserve.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb accumulate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (accumulate) | 1. Get or gather together.[Wordnet]. 2. Collect or gather.[Wordnet]. 3. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.[Websters]. 4. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: accumulating, accumulated, accumulates, accumulator, accumulators, accumulatingly and accumulatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being treasured.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being baffling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being beguiling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being captivating or fascinating.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACCUMULATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ACCUMULATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Heaping up; amassing; increasing greatly.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of accumulate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: accumulate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Accumulate and fire | Accumulate and fire is a programming style in which the program sets a number of global variables or objects, then invokes subprograms or methods which operate on the globally set values. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ACCUMULATING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Accumulating contact | Electrical Engineering | An antiblocking contact to a semiconductor in which current flow results in an increase of minority carrier density in the vicinity of the contact. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Accumulating society | Insurance | A friendly society providing sickness benefits at a rate of contribution according to age at entry, calculated to provide enough revenue to accumulate a fund destined to meet the higher cost of claims in the later years of a membership. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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