cumulative

[Cu·mu*la*tive]

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

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Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated.

Adjective S.
increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances"


a.
Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.

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

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

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


Cumulative

Cu"mu*la*tive (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.] 1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt 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.
3. (Law) (a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence. (b) 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 ∨ 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.

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated.

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Usage Examples

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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Other Usage Examples

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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