Definition of cumulative
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
- a 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
- a 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
6
finance
a
:to be added if not paid when normally due to the next payment or a future payment
- cumulative preferred dividends
- cumulative interest
b
of stock
:bearing such a dividend
- cumulative preferred stock
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cumulatively
adverb
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