Accumulation may refer to:
Finance
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Accumulation function, a mathematical function defined in terms of the ratio future value to present value
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Capital accumulation
Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form ...
, the gathering of objects of value
Science and engineering
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Accumulate (higher-order function), a family of functions to analyze a recursive data structure in computer science
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Bioaccumulation
Bioaccumulation is the gradual accumulation of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals, in an organism. Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a substance faster than it can be lost or eliminated by catabolism and excretion. T ...
, of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals in an organism
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Glacier ice accumulation, an element in the glacier mass balance formula
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Metabolic trapping, a localization mechanism of the synthesized radiocompounds in human body
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Tree accumulation, in computer science, the process of accumulating data placed in tree nodes according to their tree structure
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Accumulation point
In mathematics, a limit point, accumulation point, or cluster point of a Set (mathematics), set S in a topological space X is a point x that can be "approximated" by points of S in the sense that every neighbourhood (mathematics), neighbourhood of ...
, another name for a limit point
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Cumulative sum, for example
cumulative distribution function
In probability theory and statistics, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable X, or just distribution function of X, evaluated at x, is the probability that X will take a value less than or equal to x.
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, or cumulative death toll, summarized since start of a catastrophe
Other
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Accumulation: None'', a 2002 lo-fi album
See also
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Accumulator (disambiguation)
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