cumulative

cu·mu·la·tive

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 sum of the frequencies of experimentally determined values of a random variable that are less than or equal to a specified value.
   b. Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

Related Forms:

• cumulatively cuˈmu·laˌtive·ly adverb

• cuˈmu·laˌtive·ness noun