Accumulation
# Accumulation

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
