cu·mu·la·tive (ky m y -l  t v, -y-l-tv)adj. 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. cu mu·lative·ly adv.cu mu·lative·ness n. |
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| Adv. | 1. | cumulatively - in a cumulative manner; "mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively" |
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