Accumulation may refer to:

Finance

  • Accumulation function, a mathematical function defined in terms of the ratio future value to present value
  • Capital accumulation, the gathering of objects of value

Science and engineering

  • Accumulate (higher-order function), a family of functions to analyze a recursive data structure in computer science
  • Bioaccumulation, of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals in an organism
  • Glacier ice accumulation, an element in the glacier mass balance formula
  • Metabolic trapping, a localization mechanism of the synthesized radiocompounds in human body
  • Tree accumulation, in computer science, the process of accumulating data placed in tree nodes according to their tree structure
  • Accumulation point, another name for a limit point
  • Cumulative sum, for example cumulative distribution function, or cumulative death toll, summarized since start of a catastrophe

Other

  • Accumulation: None, a 2002 lo-fi album

See also

  • Accumulator (disambiguation)