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cu·mu·la·tive
(kyo͞om′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
a. Supporting the same point as earlier evidence: cumulative evidence.
b. Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender: cumulative punishment.
c. Following successively; consecutive: cumulative sentences.
5. Statistics
a. Of or relating to the total observed frequency of data, or the probability of a random variable, that is less than or equal to a specified value.
b. Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.
cu′mu·la′tive·ly adv.
cu′mu·la′tive·ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | cumulatively - in a cumulative manner; "mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively" |
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cumulatively
adv → kumulativ
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