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Accumulator

noun

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). Synonyms: collector, gatherer.

A voltaic battery that stores electric charge. Synonym: storage battery.

(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register. Synonym: accumulator register.

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"Accumulator" Quotes from Famous Books

... people thus disguised remained the same. Every type was gathered, from the sound, reasonable accumulator of wealth to the "hold-up," the gambler, the fugitive from the law. It was said of Leaping Horse that it only required the "dust" to buy any crime known to the penal code. And here, here at the Elysian Fields, on any night ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

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