accumulation

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A lot of management do not see this accumulation of technical debt.

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an increase by natural growth or addition

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noun

an increase by natural growth or addition

noun

several things grouped together or considered as a whole

noun

the act of accumulating

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for accumulation.

noun

an increase by natural growth or addition

noun

several things grouped together or considered as a whole

See also: collection, aggregation, assemblage

noun

the act of accumulating

noun

(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation

Example sentences

A lot of management do not see this accumulation of technical debt.

You can still practice accumulation on a budget, but it's hard to see that as a healthy motivation.

Scientific research is a slow process of careful accumulation, sifting, and construction of links.

For the most part, reductions in disease risk are gradual, mostly from accumulation of better practice in treatment and prevention.

The key to that accumulation is assuring that the people who make up the other 99 percent are sharply restricted in what power and privilege they accumulate.

The accumulation of decisions with those characteristics will sink any company.

It has to do with mastery of skills, an accumulation of knowledge, and the alchemist's ability to convert these elements into amazing things to offer the world.

It also lets the emotions flow a bit easier, the ones that we have to keep bottled up during the day, the slow accumulation of small frustrations from dealing with people who I can't relate to.

A bad diet wreaks havoc on the endocrine system, mainly with insulin levels, causing excessive fat accumulation due to calories being partitioned to fat cells at the expense of the rest of the body.