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Definition of Cumulative
1. Adjective. Increasing by successive addition. "The eventual accumulative effect of these substances"
Definition of Cumulative
1. a. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
Definition of Cumulative
1. Adjective. Incorporating all data up to the present ¹
2. Adjective. That is formed by accumulation of successive additions ¹
3. Adjective. That tends to accumulate ¹
4. Adjective. (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cumulative
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cumulative
1. Increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumulative
Literary usage of Cumulative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"kind the newly discovered evidence is i Newly discovered evidence raising a held
not cumulative, presumably on the new ground of claim or defense is, ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"Certainly a dictionary catalog kept up by, say, semi-monthly cumulative issues would
... Further, cumulative annotated bibliographies on current books and ..."
3. A Manual of Corporate Organization: Containing Information, Directions and by Thomas Conyngton (1913)
"cumulative Dividends X Preferred stock may be cumulative or non-cumulative. ...
If preferred stock is non-cumulative, a passed dividend is lost and is not a ..."
4. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"Combining this observation regarding the cumulative feature of railroad preferred
stocks with that of dividends, it would seem that, as a whole, ..."
5. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts by Willard Cope Brinton (1914)
"CHAPTER IX cumulative OR MASS CURVES THE curves thus far shown have practically
all been of ... With cumulative or mass curves, such as are considered here, ..."
6. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"cumulative table showing cost of running trains per total train mile to each of the
... cumulative table showing average cost of running rwy. per mile. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"Martin, 10 Sim. 287, followed in Wil- 89. The following are substituted kins v.
Jodrell, 13 CD 564, in prof- and not cumulative gifts: Legacies of ..."
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