Cumulative
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Full definition of cumulative
Adjective
cumulative
- Incorporating all data up to the present
- That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
- Francis BaconAs for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.
- TrenchThe argument ... is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
- That tends to accumulate
- (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid