| 释义 |
accumulated, ppl. a.|əˈkjuːmjʊleɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Heaped up, collected. Also accumulated temperature (see quots.).
1692C. O'Kelly Macariæ Excidium in T. C. Croker Narr. Contests in Ireland (1841) 97 His good fortune to have retired before such accumulated misfortunes happened to his country. 1762Falconer Shipw. ii. 263 Accumulated perils thus arise. 1764Reid Inq. Hum. Mind. v. §1. 119 They make heat a particular element diffused through nature, and accumulated in the heated body. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 144 To enrich his army with the accumulated spoils of three hundred triumphs. 1850D. Thomas Crisis of Being i. 2 The past has given to you its accumulated experiences to study. 1860Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 121 Yesterday I burnt..the accumulated letters and papers of twenty years. 1884Meteorol. Off. Wkly. Weather Rep. p. iv, The Accumulated Temperature is expressed in ‘Day-degrees’,—a Day-degree signifying 1° F. of excess or defect of temperature above or below 42° F. continued for 24 hours, or other number of degrees for an inversely proportional number of hours. 1952Jrnl. Ecol. XL. 376 Most attempts at measuring the effects of temperature on plant growth have involved the summation of daily, weekly or monthly mean temperatures above a certain base-line... Such a use of summed mean temperatures or ‘accumulated temperatures’ assumes that growth ceases below the base-line employed. |