Cumulative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.
  • adj. Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
  • adj. Of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.
  • adj. Law Supporting the same point as earlier evidence: cumulative evidence.
  • adj. Law Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender: cumulative punishment.
  • adj. Law Following successively; consecutive: cumulative sentences.
  • adj. Statistics Of or relating to the sum of the frequencies of experimentally determined values of a random variable that are less than or equal to a specified value.
  • adj. Statistics Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Incorporating all data up to the present
  • adj. That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
  • adj. That tends to accumulate
  • adj. Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
  • adj. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions.
  • adj.
  • adj. Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
  • adj. Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Adding to; increasing the mass, weight, number, extent, amount, or force of (things of the same kind): as, cumulative materials; cumulative arguments or testimony. See below.
  • Increasing by successive additions: as, the cumulative action of a force.
  • Composed of aggregated parts; composite; brought together by degrees.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. increasing by successive addition
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