Usually means: Accumulating total from successive additions.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word cumulative:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cumulative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cumulative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cumulative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cumulative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cumulative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cumulative, cumulative: Wordnik
  7. cumulative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cumulative: Wiktionary
  9. cumulative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cumulative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cumulative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cumulative: Dictionary.com
  13. cumulative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cumulative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cumulative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cumulative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cumulative: Rhymezone
  18. cumulative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cumulative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cumulative: Free Dictionary
  21. cumulative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cumulative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. cumulative: Legal dictionary
  5. cumulative: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cumulative: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  4. cumulative: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cumulatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
adjective:  That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
adjective:  (linguistics) Adding one statement to another.
adjective:  That tends to accumulate.
adjective:  (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
adjective:  (law) (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.

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