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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cumulative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cumulative effect (=the effect of many things happening one after the other)
▪ The cumulative effect of these policies will be to push up inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
effect
▪ Though single pieces were restrained, the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically.
▪ The cumulative effect provides an even more impressive testimonial.
▪ Their cumulative effect would give rise to the microwave background radiation.
▪ The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.
▪ Then there is the cumulative effect of accidents, small and large.
▪ But the cumulative effect is gridlock.
▪ Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect.
▪ The cumulative effect of this conscientious blandness denied Lisa a distinctive personality, which limited the fervor of its users.
impact
▪ While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years, the cumulative impact is significant.
▪ Moreover, the cumulative impact of temporary disablements is considerably smaller than that of permanent impairments.
incidence
▪ A class of K-sample tests for comparing the cumulative incidence of a competing risk.
▪ Since the time to clinical progression was known, we used Kaplan-Meier analysis to estimate cumulative incidence.
▪ Neglia and colleagues2based their estimates of cumulative risks on Kaplan-Meier statistics, which commonly overestimates the true cumulative incidence.
process
▪ The cumulative process is directed by nonrandom survival.
▪ It was difficult for the authorities to detect this cumulative process at work.
▪ The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual, cumulative process.
selection
▪ Before that there were many generations of cumulative selection, based upon some quite different replicating entities.
▪ Tiny mutations would make cumulative selection too slow.
▪ Could a form of cumulative selection get going?
▪ It therefore is converged upon by cumulative selection from two very different starting points.
▪ In our computer models in Chapter 3, we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection.
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
▪ I shall introduce its fundamental essence in Chapter 3 under the title of cumulative selection.
▪ Chance is a minor ingredient in the Darwinian recipe, but the most important ingredient is cumulative selection which is quintessentially nonrandom.
total
▪ The cumulative totals for each column are also entered.
▪ Jurors in the three previous trials have voted by a cumulative total of 23 to 13 to convict.
▪ This brings the cumulative total donated to charity since the scheme began in 1990 to £25,500.
▪ This process requires a table of 2849 entries, each showing the cumulative total of records up to the start of that set.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative.
▪ The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.
▪ The essential difference between single-step selection and cumulative selection is this.
▪ The figure illustrates the cumulative ulcer free survival curves of patients randomised to each drug.
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
▪ This situation, although made worse by the war, was a cumulative problem dating from the period of colonial dependency.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumulative

Cumulative \Cu"mu*la*tive\ (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.]

  1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated. ``As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.''
    --Bacon

  2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.

    The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
    --Trench.

  3. (Law)

    1. Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.

    2. Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
      --Bouvier.
      --Wharton.

      Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose.

      Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative.

      Cumulative vote or Cumulative system of voting (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cumulative

c.1600, from Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulare "to heap," from cumulus "heap" (see cumulus) + -ive.

Wiktionary
cumulative

a. 1 Incorporating all data up to the present 2 That is formed by accumulation of successive additions 3 That tends to accumulate 4 (context finance English) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid

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WordNet
cumulative

adj. increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances" [syn: accumulative]

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Usage examples of "cumulative".

Peruvians are enslaved by it, and in Colombia whole populations are addicted to it and the process of slow degeneration from its cumulative effects.

Marghe wondered how she had been able to tell about the cumulative toxic effect of the adjuvants just from that test, but had not doubted that she could, and was glad to find someone who thought she could help her body get rid of them.

What he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.

Lyons could feel his anger rising the more he dwelt on the situation, and meshing with his fatigue and hunger, the loathing became so strong he felt his musdes knotting with the cumulative tension.

The most relevant aspect that the struggles have demonstrated may be sudden accelerations, often cumulative, that can become virtually simultaneous, explosions that reveal a properly ontological power and unforeseeable attack on the most central equilibria of Empire.

Layer upon layer, the cumulative effect of his painstaking and detailed analysis is to suggest that we are deluding ourselves when we suppose that accurate instruments for measuring longitude were not invented until the eighteenth century.

State which the commerce touches, merely because interstate commerce is being done, so that without the protection of the commerce clause it would bear cumulative burdens not imposed on local commerce.

But if subthreshold shocks are repeatedly applied, the cumulative affect is shock artifact--indistinguishable from a stimulating impulse.

Marghe wondered how she had been able to tell about the cumulative toxic effect of the adjuvants just from that test, but had not doubted that she could, and was glad to find someone who thought she could help her body get rid of them.

Besides, she knew Miss McGuire would have an answer to that: that the pounds of chocolate fed the animals in one day was less than the hooked chimo or chimee would eat in ten years, and since Notcidese life could not assimilate chocolate, the cumulative effects could be similar.

And between contestants, the transmitter of the breath will be disinfected by a registered trained nurse with Listerine, so that there may be no build-up, or cumulative effect.

For the purpose of explaining the cumulative process, I have arranged the validation of special consensus according to the sequence in which the states of nonordinary reality and special ordinary reality occurred.

They are not suppressants but vital cell nutrients and are cumulative in their action.

The wonderful German syntax seems at its most enigmatical in this sort of literature, and sometimes they lost themselves in its labyrinths completely, and only made their way perilously out with the help of cumulative declensions, past articles and adjectives blindly seeking their nouns, to long-procrastinated verbs dancing like swamp-fires in the distance.

The official story is that any decent symbiote will prevent drugs or current or psychobugs or practically anything else from doing permanent damage, and of course Nakada would have had the best symbiotes and implants that money could buy, but I still wondered if her brain might have had a few circuits shortedsubtle little things that scans and symbiotes could miss, but with a cumulative effect of making her a little stupid, a little bit out of touch with reality.