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accumulator

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﹒A device or instrument that collects or stores energy, typically in the form of electricity or hydraulic pressure.

﹒A register in a computer's central processing unit in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored.

﹒A person or thing that gathers or amasses something over time.

Examples

﹒The programmer used an accumulator to keep track of the running total during the loop.

﹒In many computer architectures, the accumulator is a register that stores the intermediate results of arithmetic operations.

﹒The hydraulic accumulator helps maintain constant pressure in the system by storing energy.

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