(gambling) A collective bet on successive events
“The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.”
One who, or that which, accumulates
“He was an accumulator of the impressions of others, an intellectual packrat, like any artist worth his salt.”
(finance) A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price
“This product was fairly popular among investors in Hong Kong in 2007 considering the market conditions at that time. It is an accumulator of the underlying stock with a contract period of 12 months.”
(engineering, hydraulics) A container which stores hydraulic power for release
“As the energy storage system, the hydraulic accumulator has the ability to accept both high frequencies and high rates of charging and discharging.”
An electric power unit that stores energy received and can be recharged
A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity
A bet in which the bettor selects the first three placegetters of a race in order
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