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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.
The heuristic concept of learning curves describes cost reductions as a function of cumulative production.
Demidenko fusses around with agogics and tempo fluctuation to the point where the music's unity and cumulative power fall by the wayside.
He lent me a digital power meter that measures both demand in watts and cumulative energy consumption in watt-hours.
The weighted scores for each ulcer were then tallied to obtain a cumulative score.
We first cumulated these returns to obtain the cumulative sum unadjusted and market-adjusted returns for the selected aftermarket time horizons.

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