2006-11-20 20:55:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
cumulative (adj.)
Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.
Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
Of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.
Law.
Supporting the same point as earlier evidence: cumulative evidence.
Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender: cumulative punishment.
Following successively; consecutive: cumulative sentences.
Statistics.
Of or relating to the sum of the frequencies of experimentally determined values of a random variable that are less than or equal to a specified value.
Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.
cumulatively cu'mu·la'tive·ly adv.
cumulativeness cu'mu·la'tive·ness n.
2006-11-20 21:00:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is spelled "cumulative" and pronounced "cu-mu-lae-tive". The word is usually used as an adjective with an item or entity that "adds-up" over time (for example, you may say that dues to a library are cumulative... they add up as the days go by). Here are a few defintions I got from Google:
1. increasing or enlarging by successive addition; acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
www.wef.org/publicinfo/newsroom/wastewater_glossary.jhtml
2. Over the course of many games the plus (+) or minus (-) spread for each game is added together. At the end of the tournament each player has a total spread for the event.
www.scrabble-assoc.com/info/glossary.html
3. The overall accrued total of skills, knowledge, or items.
www.nmlites.org/standards/modernlanguages/glossary.html
Please make use of the context where in this word was used to determine its exact meaning with reference to the place where it was used.
2006-11-21 05:20:17 · answer #2 · answered by Bhargav 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The added value. Upto the current date or month or year etc.
Example. Daily sales of TVs gives sales on a particular day. Cumulative sales gives the figure of total sales till that particular date.
2006-11-21 05:11:49 · answer #3 · answered by SGraja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adding up over time.
2006-11-21 05:03:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cumulative means that over multiple cycles, turns, time units, etc, you keep adding to your result, instead of replacing it with new values.
2006-11-21 05:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by brian-upstairs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋