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An accumulator is a register that is a part of a processor. It has more/faster instructions than other registers. Examples:

/360: no accumulator

8080: A

6800: A and B

8086: AX

80386: EAX

x86-64: RAX
The accumulator in an automatic transmission softens the shift between gears.

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