cumulative

/'kju:mjulətiv/

Thân thiện

The benefits of saving money are cumulative over time.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Increasing or growing by successive additions: Describes something that increases in quantity, degree, or force by a series of additions, where each new amount is added to the previous total. 2. Accumulated over time: Refers to the total amount or effect that results from the gradual gathering or combination of separate elements.

Examples of Usage

Advanced Usage

• "Cumulative voting": A voting system where each voter has multiple votes that they can distribute among candidates or concentrate on a single candidate.
  • The shareholders used cumulative voting to ensure minority representation on the board.
• In a legal/formal context: Often used to describe evidence or knowledge that builds progressively.
  • The detective pieced together a case based on cumulative evidence from multiple sources.

Variants and Related Words

• Cumulatively (adverb): In a way that increases by successive additions.
  • The costs added up cumulatively over the years.
• Accumulate (verb): To gather or collect over time.
• Accumulative (adjective): Tending to or resulting from accumulation. (Note: Often used interchangeably with "cumulative," though "cumulative" more strongly implies the of addition, while "accumulative" can emphasize the of gathering.)

Synonyms

• Accumulated
• Accretive
• Aggregate
• Collective
• Total

Antonyms

• Noncumulative
• Isolated
• Individual

Học thuật

Adjective

1. increasing by successive addition
   • the benefits are cumulative
   • the eventual accumulative effect of these substances

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