Other forms: accumulations
An accumulation is a mass gathered a little at a time. An accumulation of dust, the accumulation of wealth, accumulation of evidence.
The slowness is the point, and it is what makes the word suit both snow and capital. In betting, the same idea made ruinous is a bet where each win is staked on the next, called an accumulation of stakes.
1nounaccumulationA mass gathered a little at a time.
“An accumulation of dust and old newspapers filled the empty flat.”
accumulation is a mass.
Latin accumulatio comes from accumulare, to heap up, from ad plus cumulus, a heap.
Latin
accumulātiō
Middle French
accumulation
Middle English
acumulacyon
English, today
accumulation
From Middle English acumulacyon, from Middle French accumulation, from Latin accumulātiō. From Middle English acumulacyon, from Middle French accumulation and its etymon, Latin accumulatio. by surface analysis, accumulate + -ion. First attested in the late 15th century. a doublet of accumulatio.
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