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cumulative

adjective

cu·​mu·​la·​tive ˈkyü-myə-lə-tiv How to pronounce cumulative (audio)
-ˌlā-
1
a
: increasing by successive additions
b
: made up of accumulated parts
2
: tending to prove the same point
cumulative evidence
3
a
: taking effect upon completion of another penal sentence
a cumulative sentence
b
: increasing in severity with repetition of the offense
cumulative penalty
4
: formed by the addition of new material of the same kind
a cumulative book index
5
: summing or integrating overall data or values of a random variable less than or less than or equal to a specified value
cumulative normal distribution
cumulative frequency distribution
6
finance
a
: to be added if not paid when normally due to the next payment or a future payment
cumulative preferred dividends
cumulative interest
b
of stock : bearing such a dividend
cumulative preferred stock
cumulatively adverb
cumulativeness noun

Example Sentences

… Game Boy, which first came out in 1989 as a monochrome handheld toy, has become the most successful of all of the systems, reaching cumulative sales of 110 million units to date … N'gai Croal, Newsweek, 28 May 2001 They began looking at the cumulative effect of stress and realized that, while there might have been an incident that finally triggered the madness, a series of previous events had lowered the soldier's emotional resistance. Michael Fleming and Roger Manvell, Psychology Today, July 1987 Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," in Essays1841 a cumulative weight gain of 20 pounds over the course of a year
Recent Examples on the Web Their cumulative gross revenues stood at $752 billion. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2022 The Defense Department’s flat-footed response to inflation will result in a real—and cumulative—pay cut for service members. John Ferrari, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022 Fishburn, a 30-year-old golfer from Fremont High School and BYU, needed about a top-30 finish in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to earn a PGA Tour card, via cumulative points in the three-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals. The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022 The cumulative number of deaths since June 14 rose to 1,282 on Saturday, the country's National Disaster Management Authority reported, and almost a third of the victims are children. Idris Mukhtar, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022 But the first figure mentioned in the post is an outdated FBI statistic, while the second is a cumulative number based on CDC data over a 15-year timespan. Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022 To date, the city still uses the at-large voting method, but switched to a practice called cumulative voting that allows residents to vote for multiple candidates, rather than a winner-take-all approach. Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2022 Child care provider closings have outpaced openings during the pandemic, and a cumulative statewide list includes more than 54,000 children waiting for a spot. Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2022 The universities here have recorded at least 15 strikes covering a cumulative period of four years since 2000. Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

see cumulate

First Known Use

1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

Time Traveler
The first known use of cumulative was in 1605

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