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Heap vs Cumulation - What's the difference?

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Heap is a related term of cumulation.


As nouns the difference between heap and cumulation

is that heap is heap while cumulation is accumulation.

heap

English

(wikipedia heap)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a heap of vassals and slaves
  • * W. Black
    • He had heaps of friends.
  • A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
    • a heap of earth or stones
  • * Dryden
    • Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
  • A great number or large quantity of things.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
    • I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
  • (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap , and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (heap)
  • To pile in a heap.
    • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
  • To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
    • Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
    News of that vanished Arabian,
    A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
  • To supply in great quantity.
    • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

    Derived terms

    * heap up

    Anagrams

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    cumulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Accumulation.
  • * 1859 , The Veterinarian , volume XXXII-V, fourth series, page 82:
    • The cumulation and toleration of medicines.
  • * 1982 , Journal of the Indian Chemical Society , volume 59, page 1329:
    • The Cumulation of Methylmercury and Phenylmercury Species on Alga.
  • * 1997 , Graham Bell, The basics of selection , page 15:
    • Very improbable structures readily arise through the cumulation of small alterations.
  • * 2004 , Leslie Kish, Statistical design for research , page 186:
    • Changes in internal boundaries can also occur more frequently and can complicate cumulations of data for cities [...]
  • The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • * 2013 , Switzerland Federal Department of Finance, [http://www.ezv.admin.ch/pdf_linker.php?doc=Die_Kumulation_in_den_Freihandelsabkommen&lang=en]:
    • Cumulation' is a deviation from the principle that goods must be produced entirely in the country of exportation, or have undergone sufficient working or processing there, in order to qualify as originating goods. ' Cumulation makes it possible for goods from a free trade partner to be treated the same as those originating in the country of exportation.

    Related terms

    * accumulation