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cu·mu·la·tive

  [kyoo-myuh-luh-tiv, -ley-tiv]  Show IPA

adjective

1.

increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejectionafter another.

2.

formed by or resulting from accumulation or the addition of successive parts or elements.

3.

of or pertaining to interest or dividends that, if not paid when due, become a prior claim for paymentin the future: cumulative preferred stocks.

Origin: 
1595–1605; cumulate + -ive

Related forms

cu·mu·la·tive·ly, adverb

cu·mu·la·tive·ness, noun

un·cu·mu·la·tive, adjective

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cumulative  (ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv)
— adj
1.	growing in quantity, strength, or effect by successive additions or gradual steps: cumulative pollution
2.	gained by or resulting from a gradual building up: cumulative benefits
3.	finance
	a. (of preference shares) entitling the holder to receive any arrears of dividend before any dividend isdistributed to ordinary shareholders
	b. (of dividends or interest) intended to be accumulated if not paid when due
4.	statistics
	a. (of a frequency) including all values of a variable either below or above a specified value
	b. (of error) tending to increase as the sample size is increased
'cumulatively
— adv
'cumulativeness
— n

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

cumulative 

c.1600, from L. cumulatus, pp. of cumulare "to heap," from cumulus "heap" (see cumulus) + -ive.

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Medical Dictionary

cumulative  cu·mu·la·tive (ky&oomacr;m'yə-lā'tĭv, -yə-lə-tĭv) 
adj.

1.  Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.
2.  Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
3.  Of or relating to the sum of the frequencies of experimentally determined values of arandom variable that are less than or equal to a specified value.
4.  Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

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