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accumulation vs summation

summation vs accumulation

accumulation and summation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
accumulation Yes No No No
summation Yes No No No
As nouns, summation is a hyponym of accumulation; that is, summation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than accumulation:
  • accumulation: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  • summation: the final aggregate
Other hyponyms of accumulation include procession, pharmacopoeia, string, wardrobe, wardrobe, population, universe, armamentarium, art collection, backlog, battery, block, book, rule book, book, bottle collection, bunch, caboodle, lot, coin collection, collage, content, contents, ensemble, tout ensemble, corpus, crop, tenantry, findings, flagging, flinders, pack, deal, hand, long suit, herbarium, stamp collection, statuary, sum, sum total, agglomeration, gimmickry, nuclear club, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile, mass, combination, congregation, hit parade, Judaica, kludge, library, program library, subroutine library, library, mythology, biology, biota, fauna, zoology, petting zoo, set, Victoriana, category, class, family, job lot, bundle, package, packet, parcel, defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team, prosecution, planting, signage, GAAP, generally accepted accounting principles, pantheon, Free World, Third World, Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, Oort cloud, galaxy, extragalactic nebula, galaxy, fleet, fleet, fleet, repertoire, repertory, repertoire, repertory, assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety, batch, clutch, batch, rogue's gallery, exhibition, expo, exposition, convoy, traffic, air power, aviation, botany, flora, vegetation, jurisprudence, law, menagerie, data, information, ana, mail, post, treasure, treasure trove, trinketry, troponomy, troponymy, smithereens, tripton, napoleoniana, problematics, audio library.
accumulation (noun) summation (noun)
the act of accumulating the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
several things grouped together or considered as a whole a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation the final aggregate
an increase by natural growth or addition (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce
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