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