Accumulator may refer to:
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Accumulator (bet), a parlay bet
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Accumulator (computing)
In a computer's central processing unit (CPU), the accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic logic unit results are stored.
Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation ( ...
, in a CPU, a processor register for storing intermediate results
* Accumulator (computer vision), discrete cell structure to count votes, standard component of the
Hough transform
The Hough transform is a feature extraction technique used in image analysis, computer vision, and digital image processing. The purpose of the technique is to find imperfect instances of objects within a certain class of shapes by a voting pro ...
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Accumulator (cryptography), a value, determined by a set of values, that allows one to verify if any one of the original values is a member of the set
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Accumulator (energy), an apparatus for storing energy or power
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Capacitor, in electrical engineering, also known by the obsolete term ''accumulator''
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Electrochemical cell, a cell that stores electrical energy, typically used in rechargeable batteries
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Hydraulic accumulator, an energy storage device using hydraulic fluid under pressure
** Thermal accumulator, a device or system that provides
thermal energy storage as from concentrated solar power and storage heaters or heat banks in buildings
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Accumulator (structured product), a financial contract used by clients (usually individuals) to accumulate stock positions over time
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Accumulator 1
''Accumulator 1'' ( cs, Akumulátor 1) is a 1994 film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film won the Grand Prize at the 7th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1996. It won the audience award at the Tromsø International Film Fest ...
'', a Czech film
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Dynamic accumulator Dynamic accumulator is a term used in the permaculture and organic farming literature to indicate plants that gather certain minerals or nutrients from the soil and store them in a more bioavailable form and in high concentration in their tissues ...
, a plant that mines nutrients from the soil through its roots
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