title: Accumulation
text: # 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
  