cumulative
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From cumulate + -ive. Compare also French cumulatif, Italian cumulativo and Spanish cumulativo.
AdjectiveEdit
cumulative (comparative more cumulative, superlative most cumulative)
- Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating
- That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions
- Francis Bacon
- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.
- Trench
- The argument […] is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
- Francis Bacon
- That tends to accumulate
- (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
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TranslationsEdit
incorporating all data up to the present
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