0 to collect a large number of things over a long period of time: --
If you don't go through the papers on your desk on a regular basis, they just keep on accumulating.
The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.
1 to collect or increase something gradually, esp. over a period of time: --
3 to collect an amount of something over a period of time: --
Presidential nominations are won by accumulating delegates from a sequential series of state-based primaries and caucuses.
Transcriptionally active oocytes are probably still accumulating the products required for oocyte maturation and preimplantation embryo development.
Evidence accumulated over the years suggests that release of spermatozoa from the reservoir is due to surface changes associated with capacitation.
The large amount of carbon fixed by mangroves gets accumulated a nd stored for a long period in underground parts.
By electrolysis, the heavy water separated into oxygen, which collected at the platinum electrode, and deuterium, which accumulated at the palladium electrode.
We accumulated other ecological information that had not been previously reported from sympatric populations of these two species.
The accumulating evidence indicates that some taxa have great capacity to produce large and persistent seed banks.
Depressions where litter had accumulated and from which bryophytes were absent were also unfavourable to recruitment.
