cumulatively

cu·mu·la·tive  (kymy-ltv, -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.

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cumu·lative·ly adv.

cumu·lative·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

cumulatively - in a cumulative manner; "mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively"