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Accumulation

noun

An increase by natural growth or addition. Synonym: accretion.

Several things grouped together or considered as a whole. Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection.

The act of accumulating. Synonyms: accrual, accruement.

(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation.

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"Accumulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... rock without a blade of grass on all its dark iron-like surface. Around it is a vast accumulation of granite boulders and vast rocky ledges. The trees are stunted, the very ferns can scarcely find a place ...

— Cord and Creese • James de Mille

... Winnipeg. At the period of which we write, (the month of May), both rivers were yet covered with the icy garment—between four and five feet thick—under which they had gone to rest five or six months before. The vast accumulation of snow which had fallen that winter was melted so fast that the Red River had risen with terrible rapidity, and it was obvious, from the ominous complainings of the "thick-ribbed ice," that a burst-up of unwonted violence was impending. The strength of the ice, however, was so great that ...

— The Red Man's Revenge - A Tale of The Red River Flood • R.M. Ballantyne

... favour of the evolution of living forms one from another;" and (2) that the case of the horse is one which "will stand rigorous criticism." Thus I do not see clearly in what way I can be said to have changed my opinion, except in the way of intensifying it, when in consequence of the accumulation of similar evidence since 1870, I recently spoke of the denial of evolution as ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... been disposed of, and there had been such an accumulation of them recently that it was difficult to keep ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... points, an abrupt and capricious young woman. During the three or four days in question, Bernard lingered on at Baden, uncertain what to do or where to go, feeling as if he had received a sudden check—a sort of spiritual snub—which arrested the accumulation of motive. Lovelock, also, whom Bernard saw every day, appeared to think that destiny had given him a slap in the face, for he had not enjoyed the satisfaction of a last ...

— Confidence • Henry James

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