cumulative

(kyūm'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 interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.
4. Law.
   1. Supporting the same point as earlier evidence: cumulative evidence.
   2. Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender: cumulative punishment.
   3. Following successively; consecutive: cumulative sentences.
5. Statistics.
   1. 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.
   2. Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

cumulatively cu'mu·la'tive·ly adv.
cumulativeness cu'mu·la'tive·ness n.

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adjective

Increasing, as in force, by successive additions: accumulative, additive. See increase/decrease.

adj

Definition: accruing; growing in size or effect
Antonyms: decreasing, subtracting

IN BRIEF: The total added effect of over time.

The continuing rain had a cumulative effect of flooding the creeks.

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adj

Increasing in effect.

For a list of words related to cumulative, see:

• Reason and Rationale - cumulative: (adj) increasing by successive additions; tending to lead to the same conclusion

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Common misspelling(s) of cumulative

• cumulatative

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kumulativ, akkumulerende

idioms:

• cumulative error    kumulativ fejl
• cumulative voting    kumulerende stemmeafgivning

Nederlands (Dutch)
cumulatief, opeenhopend

Français (French)
adj. - cumulatif

idioms:

• cumulative error    erreur cumulative
• cumulative voting    vote plural

Deutsch (German)
adj. - kumulativ, Zusatz-

idioms:

• cumulative error    (Stat.) Kumulativfehler, systematischer Fehler
• cumulative voting    kumulatives Wählen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - συσσωρευτικός, αθροιστικός

idioms:

• cumulative error    σωρευτικό σφάλμα
• cumulative voting    πολυσταυρία (εκλογικό σύστημα)

Italiano (Italian)
cumulativo

idioms:

• cumulative error    errore cumulativo
• cumulative voting    voto cumulativo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - acumulativo

idioms:

• cumulative error    erro (m) acumulativo
• cumulative voting    voto (m) cumulativo

Русский (Russian)
совокупный

idioms:

• cumulative error    совокупная ошибка
• cumulative voting    столько голосов сколько кандидатов

Español (Spanish)
adj. - acumulativo

idioms:

• cumulative error    error acumulativo
• cumulative voting    votación acumulativa

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - som hopar sig, ackumulativ, hopad, bekräftande, upprepad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
累积的

idioms:

• cumulative error    累积差误
• cumulative voting    累积投票法, 累积投票权法律专业累积投票

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 累積的

idioms:

• cumulative error    累積差誤
• cumulative voting    累積投票法, 累積投票權法律專業累積投票

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 축적적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 累積する, 累加する, 追加方式の

idioms:

• cumulative error    累差, 累積誤差
• cumulative voting    累積投票法

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) تراكمي, متراكم, متجمع, متزايد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מצטבר‬

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