cumulative : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cumulative	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cumulative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cumulative adj increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances" Synonym(s): accumulative, cumulative
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cumulative \Cu"mulative\ (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.] 1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated. [bd]As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.[b8] --Bacon 2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. --Trench. 3. (Law) (a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence. (b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. --Bouvier. --Wharton.