accumulator
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One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.
A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
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8-bit instructions Most 8-bit operations can only be performed on the 8-bit accumulator (the A register).
Accumulators on a tabulating machine circa 1936. Each of the four registers can store a 10-digit decimal number. In a computer 's central processing unit ( CPU ), an accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored.
Accumulator mode uses the accumulator as an effective address, and does not need any operand data.
Access to main memory is slower than access to a register like the accumulator because the technology used for the large main memory is slower (but cheaper) than that used for a register.
After much careful thought he produced the hydraulic accumulator, a cast-iron cylinder fitted with a plunger supporting a very heavy weight.
A parlay, accumulator or roll-up consists of a series of bets in which bettors stake the winnings from one race on the next in order until either the bettor loses or the series completes successfully.