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Accumulation

This article is a stub. Perhaps you can help Wikipedia by fixing it. Note that the merit of a potential article on "accumulation" is contested; see the talk page.

Potential definitions:

  • Accumulation is the basic process of matter or information bunching up often with the aid of sorting.
  • Accumulation is any sort of bunching together, whether caused by natural or human forces.
  • Accumulation is the combination of different subcomponents into a whole.

Particular subtopics for an article about accumulation:

  • accumulation of wealth
  • accumulation of power
  • accumulation of knowledge
  • accumulation of charge
  • abstract factors that encourage/deter accumulation
  • relation of accumulation to other abstract processes
  • psychological analyses of how humans perceive accumulation(??)

Examples of accumulation(?):

  • in a network a hub is a node which has accumulated many links to other nodes.
  • A star is an example of the accumulation of matter as is a black hole.



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