summation vs accumulation

accumulation vs summation

summation and accumulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
summation	Yes	No	No	No
accumulation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, accumulation is a hypernym of summation; that is, accumulation is a word with a broader meaning than summation:

summation: the final aggregate
accumulation: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Other hypernyms of summation include aggregation, assemblage, collection.

summation (noun)	accumulation (noun)
the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers	the act of accumulating
a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)	several things grouped together or considered as a whole
the final aggregate	(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
(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	an increase by natural growth or addition

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