accumulation

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[ UK /ɐkjˌuːmjʊlˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /əkˌjumjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
  2. several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  3. an increase by natural growth or addition
  4. the act of accumulating

How To Use accumulation In A Sentence

  • The decades of peace and accumulation of wealth in the west have not only been arguably bought at the expense of the rest of the world - but also of ourselves.
  • An accumulation of debt has caused investors to worry that Portugal will not be able to pay back the money. Times, Sunday Times
  • In analyzing wealth accumulation, we limit attention to the subsample that supplied complete data on all financial and demographic variables of interest.
  • However, DDT released before that time is still present in the environment and in various organisms in the process of bioaccumulation.
  • The diseases caused by permanent deposits of uric acid in the tissues are called arthritic diseases, because the accumulations frequently occur in the joints. Nature Cure
  • The majority of the carbonates and gypsum are autogenetic with only minor secondary accumulations with depth.
  • Irgm1 accumulated around the latex beads phagosomes (seen as refringent spheres) while the loss of the nucleotide-binding site completely abolished the phagosomal accumulation. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It is claimed, probably incorrectly, that in social environments yawning and weariness are due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide.
  • _Ophthalmia lymphatica_ is a kind of anasarca of the tunica adnata; in this the vessels over the sclerotica, or white part of the eye, rise considerably above the cornea, which they surround, are less red than in the ophthalmia superficialis, and appear to be swelled by an accumulation of lymph rather than of blood; it is probably owing to the temporary obstruction of a branch of the lymphatic system. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Col1a1-Krm2 mice is associated with an accumulation of non-mineralized osteoid (stained in red, scale bars, 100 µm). doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0010309.g008 PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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