accumulator
noun/əˈkjuːmjəleɪtər/
Frequency rank: #17,053 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a variable or register that collects and stores a running total of values during computation.
Example sentence
The engineer stored all the calculated values in the accumulator before displaying the final result.
Synonyms & related words
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