Cumulative Definition

kyo͝omyə-lātĭv, -yə-lə-tĭv
adjective
Taking successive additions into account.
A cumulative average.
Webster's New World
Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
American Heritage
Designating or of preferred stock that pays regular dividends which, if not paid on the scheduled date, accumulate and take priority over dividend payments to other classes of the company's stock.
Webster's New World
Designating additional evidence that gives support to earlier evidence.
Webster's New World
Increasing in effect, size, quantity, etc. by successive additions; accumulated.
Cumulative interest.
Webster's New World
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Cumulative Sentence Examples

  • The deputies are elected by departments and by a direct cumulative vote, and hold office for three years.

  • The arguments had been regarded as alternative or else as cumulative proofs, all pointing to one conclusion - God exists.

  • The cumulative effect of these acts was practically to annihilate the woollen manufacture in Ireland and to reduce whole districts and towns, in which thousands of persons were directly or indirectly supported by the industry, to the last verge of poverty.

  • The cumulative effect is completely unexpected, unsettling and yet somehow oddly compulsive.

  • The ratiocinative parts of the Phaedo thrown into syllogisms may be easily demolished by a hostile logician; but in the dialogue as a whole there is a subtle spirit and cumulative force which logic can neither seize nor answer " (Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, p. 226, 1876).

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