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Accumulation vs Ident - What's the difference?

accumulation | ident |

As nouns the difference between accumulation and ident

is that accumulation is the act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile while ident is identification.

As an adjective ident is

diligent; persistent.

accumulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
  • The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
  • an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
  • A mass of something piled up or collected.
  • (legal) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  • (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
  • (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
  • Synonyms

    * (accounting) retained earnings

    Antonyms

    * decumulation

    ident

    English

    (wikipedia ident)

    Etymology 1

    From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Diligent; persistent.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Shortened form of identification

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Identification.
  • (television) A brief audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
  • * 2002 , Jane Austin, Graphic Originals
  • In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents .
  • (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
  • * 2004 , Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
  • ...the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root .
  • identifier (rfex)
  • Anagrams

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