Buying over a period of time. For example, this might be done by an institutional...

An addition to a trader's original market position. The first of three distinct phases in a major trend in which investors are buying.

Process by which, over a period of time, a large or excess supply of stock or futures contracts is absorbed by increasing demand from buyers. Generally, there is little price action until the sellers have been exhausted. Then buyers dominate and price tends to rise.

Institutional buying of specific stocks or the overall market. An accumulation day is identified as having volume above the previous day's volume accompanied by an increase in price.

In the context of corporate finance, refers to profits that are added to the capital base of the company rather than paid out as dividends. See: Accumulated profits tax. In the context of investments, refers to the purchase by an institutional broker of a large number of shares over a period of time in order to avoid pushing the price of that share up. In the context of mutual funds, refers to the regular investing of a fixed amount while reinvesting dividends and capital gains.

(1) the deliberate, well-controlled assembling of blocks of stock without necessarily bidding up prices. (2) profits that are not distributed to stockholders as dividends but are instead transferred to a capital account. (3) in mutual funds, an investment of a fixed dollar amount on a regular basis, including the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.

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

The retaining of and re-investment of interest

The acquisition of an increasing quantity of something. The accumulation of factors, especially capital, is a primary mechanism for economic growth.

Successive additions of a substance to a target organism, or organ, or to part of the environment, resulting in an increasing amount or concentration of the substance in the organism, organ, or environment. WHO, 1989a

an increase by natural growth or addition

Percentage addition to policy benefits as a reward to the insured for continuous renewal.

All processes, which include snowfall, condensation, avalanching, snow transport by wind, and freezing of liquid water, that add snow or ice to a glacier, floating ice, or snow cover. The term also includes the amount of snow or other solid precipitation added to a glacier or snowfield by these processes.

although there is very little precipitation at Halley, large amounts of snow is blown onto the ice shelf. Items on the surface become buried and regularly have to be dug out and lifted onto the surface. There can be as much as two metres of accumulation in a year.

All processes that add snow or ice to a glacier or to floating ice or snow cover: snow fall, avalanching, wind transport, refreezing...

all processes by which snow or ice are added to a glacier. This is typically the accumulation of snow, which is slowly transformed into ice. Other accumulation processes can include avalanches, wind-deposited snow, and the freezing of rain within the snow pack.

The buildup of a substance in the body due to either long term (chronic) exposure or repeat exposure.

The process of acquiring more or the build-up of a substance.

The buildup of a chemical in the body due to long-term or repeated exposure.

Repeating a sequence with the addition of one movement each time (e.g. 1, 12, 123, etc).

A collection numismatic items which have not been classified, sorted or identified.

Quantities of coins, tokens and other numismatic material which has not been sorted, classified, attributed nor organized in any meaningful way, unlike a true coin collection.

A group of coins, sometimes not of any certain type or date. Also can be a "hoard".

A grouping of a particular date, type, or series. Example: an accumulation of Morgan Dollars. A random grouping of coins, often as a monetary hoard. Opposite of a coin collection.