Accumulator

A CPU or central processing unit term.

The Von Neumann computer architecture includes an accumulator register as a key part of a stored program computer.

The accumulator stores the intermediate results of calculations and logic operations. The final result is then moved to another memory location, either to another register or main memory.

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