cumulation

cu·mu·late  (kymy-lt)

v. cu·mu·lat·ed, cu·mu·lat·ing, cu·mu·lates

v.tr.

1. To gather in a heap; accumulate.

2. To combine into one unit; merge.

v.intr.

To become massed.

adj.

Having cumulated or having been cumulated; heaped up or amassed.

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[Latin cumulre, cumult-, from cumulus, heap; see keu- in Indo-European roots.]

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cumu·lation n.

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Cumulation a heap or pile; an accumulation.

Examples: cumulation of evidence, 1794; of prosperity, 1625.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cumulation - a collection of objects laid on top of each other heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole compost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refuse scrapheap - pile of discarded metal shock - a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock" slagheap - pile of waste matter from coal mining etc stack - an orderly pile funeral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use

Translations

cumulation

n → Anhäufung f, → Häufung f