Cumulative
adjective
Increasing or getting bigger by adding to it bit by bit over time.
Her cumulative knowledge improved after reading a book every week for a year.
Often appears as...
- cumulative effect
- cumulative total
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Academic
adjective
Made up of several parts or elements.
The cumulative percentage of each data point is calculated in a frequency distribution table.
Often appears as...
- cumulative distribution
- cumulative frequency
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Technical
adjective
Involving the total combined quantity of something.
The cumulative cost of the project was over budget.
Often appears as...
- cumulative funds
- cumulative dividends
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Academic
adjective
Increasing or getting bigger by adding to it bit by bit over time.
Her cumulative knowledge improved after reading a book every week for a year.
Often appears as...
- cumulative effect
- cumulative total
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Made up of several parts or elements.
The cumulative percentage of each data point is calculated in a frequency distribution table.
Often appears as...
- cumulative distribution
- cumulative frequency
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Involving the total combined quantity of something.
The cumulative cost of the project was over budget.
Often appears as...
- cumulative funds
- cumulative dividends
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Time Importance
Stresses that growth or change happens gradually over time.
Developing a talent for music has a cumulative effect with consistent practice.
Pro Tip 2/3Continuous Addition
Emphasizes the ongoing process of adding or increasing.
Eating healthy has a cumulative benefit for your well-being.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Clarifies that results are not immediate, but build up over time.
The cumulative impact of studying daily boosted her grades.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Importance
Stresses that growth or change happens gradually over time.
Developing a talent for music has a cumulative effect with consistent practice.
Pro Tip 2/3Continuous Addition
Emphasizes the ongoing process of adding or increasing.
Eating healthy has a cumulative benefit for your well-being.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Clarifies that results are not immediate, but build up over time.
The cumulative impact of studying daily boosted her grades.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Importance
Stresses that growth or change happens gradually over time.
Developing a talent for music has a cumulative effect with consistent practice.
Pro Tip 2/3Continuous Addition
Emphasizes the ongoing process of adding or increasing.
Eating healthy has a cumulative benefit for your well-being.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Clarifies that results are not immediate, but build up over time.
The cumulative impact of studying daily boosted her grades.
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The promise of quantum...
for while some technologies develop steadily, according to the laws of cumulative causation, many emerge as precipitous breakthroughs, almost overnight defying any timeline that could be drawn out in advance. Quantum computing is a candidate for just such a breakthrough, having already reached a number of critical milestones
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Climate Change Is...
One of the things that often -- when there are these modeling studies that look at what we need to do, is they tend to hugely overestimate how quickly other countries in the world can start to reduce emissions. So they make kind of heroic assumptions about that. The more we do that, because it's the cumulative emissions,
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You are more transparent...
Together, this bank of detectors will resolve the cumulative chemical fingerprint of the sample. From this information, a tiny on-chip computer, containing a library of chemical fingerprints for different molecules, may figure out their relative concentrations, and help diagnose a specific illness.
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Measuring the ocean’s...
this kind of tool to track how we're doing but now let's put these two worldviews together we have our negative cumulative human impact on the oceans on the y-axis and the benefits we get from the ocean measured by the ocean health index on the x-axis each bubble is a country and
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Stanley McChrystal:...
And he pointed at the screen, he said, "He's in that firefight." Think about watching your brother, father, daughter, son, wife in a firefight in real time and you can't do anything about it. Think about knowing that over time. And it's a new cumulative pressure on leaders.
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
where the food is slightly softer I don't think it's going to last that much more so the effect of the softer food is not going to be cumulative over the animals life you know what I mean I don't I think from my understanding that those teeth come through regardless of
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When ideas have sex PIPE...
And it's this combination, this cumulative technology, that intrigues me, because I think it's the secret to understanding what's happening in the world. My body's an accumulation of ideas the idea of skin cells, the idea of brain cells, the idea of liver cells.
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What you don't know...
through hot flashes and midlife crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day, when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore. And then they'll get stupid drunk
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Charles Leadbeater: The...
in collaboration with users. We like to think that invention is a sort of moment of there is a moment of birth when someone comes up with an idea. The truth is that most creativity is cumulative and collaborative;
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Mark Pagel: How language...
the best one. We can benefit from others' ideas. We can build on their wisdom. And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses. And this cumulative cultural adaptation,
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The promise of quantum...
for while some technologies develop steadily, according to the laws of cumulative causation, many emerge as precipitous breakthroughs, almost overnight defying any timeline that could be drawn out in advance. Quantum computing is a candidate for just such a breakthrough, having already reached a number of critical milestones
Video examples
Climate Change Is...
One of the things that often -- when there are these modeling studies that look at what we need to do, is they tend to hugely overestimate how quickly other countries in the world can start to reduce emissions. So they make kind of heroic assumptions about that. The more we do that, because it's the cumulative emissions,
Video examples
You are more transparent...
Together, this bank of detectors will resolve the cumulative chemical fingerprint of the sample. From this information, a tiny on-chip computer, containing a library of chemical fingerprints for different molecules, may figure out their relative concentrations, and help diagnose a specific illness.
Video examples
Measuring the ocean’s...
this kind of tool to track how we're doing but now let's put these two worldviews together we have our negative cumulative human impact on the oceans on the y-axis and the benefits we get from the ocean measured by the ocean health index on the x-axis each bubble is a country and
Video examples
Stanley McChrystal:...
And he pointed at the screen, he said, "He's in that firefight." Think about watching your brother, father, daughter, son, wife in a firefight in real time and you can't do anything about it. Think about knowing that over time. And it's a new cumulative pressure on leaders.
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
where the food is slightly softer I don't think it's going to last that much more so the effect of the softer food is not going to be cumulative over the animals life you know what I mean I don't I think from my understanding that those teeth come through regardless of
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When ideas have sex PIPE...
And it's this combination, this cumulative technology, that intrigues me, because I think it's the secret to understanding what's happening in the world. My body's an accumulation of ideas the idea of skin cells, the idea of brain cells, the idea of liver cells.
Video examples
What you don't know...
through hot flashes and midlife crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day, when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore. And then they'll get stupid drunk
Video examples
Charles Leadbeater: The...
in collaboration with users. We like to think that invention is a sort of moment of there is a moment of birth when someone comes up with an idea. The truth is that most creativity is cumulative and collaborative;
Video examples
Mark Pagel: How language...
the best one. We can benefit from others' ideas. We can build on their wisdom. And as a result, our ideas do accumulate, and our technology progresses. And this cumulative cultural adaptation,
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Lawrence Osborne
British Novelist
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.
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Sheikh Hasina
Bangladeshi Statesman
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
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George Saunders
American Writer
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
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Marsha P. Johnson
American Celebrity
History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
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Alexandra Kerry
American Director
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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Louise Brown
English Celebrity
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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Unai Emery
Spanish Coach
Implication is a cumulative process that generates union in the team and mutual respect. Either we all work, or let's just burst the ball.
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John Foster Dulles
American Public Servant
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
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Gretchen Bleiler
American Athlete
I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.
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Lawrence Osborne
British Novelist
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.
Quote examples
Sheikh Hasina
Bangladeshi Statesman
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
Quote examples
George Saunders
American Writer
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
Quote examples
Marsha P. Johnson
American Celebrity
History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
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Alexandra Kerry
American Director
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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Louise Brown
English Celebrity
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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Unai Emery
Spanish Coach
Implication is a cumulative process that generates union in the team and mutual respect. Either we all work, or let's just burst the ball.
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John Foster Dulles
American Public Servant
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
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Gretchen Bleiler
American Athlete
I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.
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