ACCUMULATOR

Charles François (2004). ACCUMULATOR, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 8.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 8 ▶
Object type	General information

Any device capable of storing some kind of resource, creating an available reserve.

Stored resources can be energetic, material or informative.

Before storage, some other agent within the system must in most cases put the resource in a form suitable for storing. See: “Input transducer”.