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cumulative

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulare "to heap," from cumulus "heap" (see cumulus ) + -ive .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumulative \Cu"mu*la*tive\ (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.] Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated. ``As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.'' --Bacon Augmenting, gaining, or giving ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
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

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

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.

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.