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What does cumulative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating
  2. That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions
  3. That tends to accumulate
  4. (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
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Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State.
Then the percentages were multiplied by the factors indicated on the x-axis to determine the cumulative effect on reproduction.
Demidenko fusses around with agogics and tempo fluctuation to the point where the music's unity and cumulative power fall by the wayside.
We first cumulated these returns to obtain the cumulative sum unadjusted and market-adjusted returns for the selected aftermarket time horizons.
The heuristic concept of learning curves describes cost reductions as a function of cumulative production.
The cumulative effect of their choices is to bring a gentleness, or a gentility, to the story.

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