amassment

n. 积蓄, 聚积

发音

/əˈmæsmənt/

词形变化

amassments 复数 amassments

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of amassing.

    可数 不可数

    All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.

    1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:

  2. 2.

    That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).

    可数 不可数

    Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.

词源

Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass + -ment.

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