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accumulator

/ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪ.tɚ/

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Accumulateur, collecteur

One who, or that which, accumulates.

Examples :

"He is a great accumulator of bad jokes."

C'est un grand accumulateur de mauvaises blagues.

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Accumulateur, batterie

A wet-cell storage battery.

Examples :

"The old car needed a jump start because its accumulator was no longer holding a charge. "

La vieille voiture a eu besoin d'un démarrage en douceur car sa batterie ne tenait plus la charge.

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Accumulateur, pari combiné

(betting) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.

Examples :

"He placed an accumulator bet on the football matches, hoping that if each team he chose won, his winnings would grow with each game. "

Il a placé un pari combiné sur les matchs de football, espérant que si chaque équipe qu'il avait choisie gagnait, ses gains augmenteraient à chaque match.

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Accumulateur, système de ressorts

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

Examples :

"The deep-sea dredging equipment used a special accumulator to absorb the shock of the heavy weight being hauled up from the ocean floor. "

L'équipement de dragage en haute mer utilisait un accumulateur spécial pour absorber le choc du poids lourd remonté des fonds marins.

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Accumulateur

A vessel containing pressurized hot water ready for release as steam.

Examples :

"The old factory used a large accumulator to store hot water, ready to release steam to power the machines. "

L'ancienne usine utilisait un grand accumulateur pour stocker de l'eau chaude, prête à libérer de la vapeur pour alimenter les machines.

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Accumulateur

(hydraulics) A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).

Examples :

"The construction equipment used an accumulator to provide bursts of extra hydraulic power for quickly lifting heavy loads. "

L'équipement de construction utilisait un accumulateur pour fournir des débits de puissance hydraulique supplémentaires afin de soulever rapidement des charges lourdes.

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Accumulateur

A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.

Examples :

"The calculator uses an accumulator to store the running total as you add numbers. "

La calculatrice utilise un accumulateur pour stocker le total courant lorsque vous ajoutez des nombres.

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Accumulateur, contrat dérivé

A derivative contract under which the seller commits to sell shares of an underlying security at a certain strike price, which the buyer is obligated to buy.

Examples :

"To increase his exposure to the stock market gradually, the investor chose to use an accumulator, agreeing to buy a fixed number of shares of Company X each month at a predetermined price, regardless of the current market value. "

Pour augmenter progressivement son exposition au marché boursier, l'investisseur a choisi d'utiliser un accumulateur, acceptant d'acheter un nombre fixe d'actions de la société X chaque mois à un prix prédéterminé, quelle que soit la valeur marchande actuelle.

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Accumulateur

One who takes two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce their length of study.

Examples :

"Maria is such an accumulator; she's pursuing a Master's in Public Health and an MBA at the same time to finish both programs faster. "

Maria est une telle accumulateur ; elle poursuit simultanément une maîtrise en santé publique et un MBA pour terminer les deux programmes plus rapidement.

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Accumulateur

A one way membership function.

Examples :

"In the school cafeteria's meal plan system, the "paid meals" category acts as an accumulator: once a meal is marked as paid, it's permanently counted, but a paid meal can never be retroactively unregistered. "

Dans le système de plan de repas de la cantine scolaire, la catégorie « repas payés » agit comme un accumulateur : une fois qu'un repas est marqué comme payé, il est compté en permanence, mais un repas payé ne peut jamais être désenregistré rétroactivement.

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