Cumulative



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 累积的
• ［英］ adj. 累积的 ( gradually increasing in amount)
• ［例］ the cumulative effect of several illnesses

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 1605
• 1.
  • a. made up of accumulated parts
  • b. increasing by successive additions
• 2. tending to prove the same point <cumulative evidence
• 3.
  • a. taking effect upon completion of another penal sentence cumulative sentence
  • b. increasing in severity with repetition of the offense <cumulative penalty
• 4. formed by the addition of new material of the same kind cumulative book index
• 5. summing or integrating overall data or values of a random variable less than or less than or equal to a specified value <cumulative normal distribution<cumulative frequency distribution
• ? cumulatively adverb
• ? cumulativeness noun

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