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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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The leader in the general classification is based on a running count of each rider's cumulative time over the race's 21 individual legs.
We hope to detect any cumulative effects of the cover crop's continued use.
The cumulative effect of all these landlord combinations sustained Irish landlordism into the early twentieth century.
The heuristic concept of learning curves describes cost reductions as a function of cumulative production.
Once started, this violence becomes cumulative, especially in a society where the dead must be revenged, and in the light of a failing State.
Since arsenic is a cumulative poison, a sub-lethal dose of ratsbane could have been dumped in the communal well or mixed with barrels of flour.

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