Account, or Accompt

[From Lat. ac, ad, and com put are, to sum up.] A computation of debts or expenses; a register of facts relating to money; the state or result of a computation; as, the account stands thus between us; - such a state of persons or things as may make them more or le worthy of being considered in the reckoning, value, or estimation; - distinction, dignity, rank; as, "men of account; "- a reckoning verified by finding the value of a thing equal to what it was aсcounted; -a reckoning referred to, or sum charged upon any particular person; and thence, figuratively, regard, consideration, sake; -a narrative, relation; as, an account of a battle; - the review or examination of an affair that which is accumulated. Accumulation of power is applied to that kind of mo tion existing in some kinds of machines at the end of intervals of time, during which the velocity of the mov ing body has been constantly accelerated. Accumulative, a . Causing accumulation. Accu'mulatively, ad . In an accumulative manner, Accumulator, n. One who accumulates. Elec . An arrangement for storing electrical force.