Cumulative
['kjuːmjʊlətɪv] or ['kjumjəletɪv]
Definition
(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.
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Examples
- There is none of that cumulative growth which makes an experience in any vital sense of that term. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The cumulative power of feeble forces acting frequently at definite intervals is seen in many ways in everyday life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It includes cognition in the degree in which it is cumulative or amounts to something, or has meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their cumulative effect is certainly considerable, and yet each of them is quite possible in itself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This cumulative movement of action toward a later result is what is meant by growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But printing gives to the present the cumulative wisdom of the past, and marks a great era of growth in civilization. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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