1. increasing or enlarging by successive addition.
2. acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
3. of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.
4. law supporting the same point as earlier evidence: cumulative evidence.
5. law imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender: cumulative punishment.
6. law following successively; consecutive: cumulative sentences.
7. statistics of or relating to the sum of the frequencies of experimentally determined values of a random variable that are less than or equal to a specified value.
8. statistics of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

1. incorporating all data up to the present
2. that is formed by accumulation of successive additions
3. that tends to accumulate
4. having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid

1. composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
2. augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions.
3.
4. tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
5. given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.

1. adding to; increasing the mass, weight, number, extent, amount, or force of (things of the same kind): as, cumulative materials; cumulative arguments or testimony. see below.
2. increasing by successive additions: as, the cumulative action of a force.
3. composed of aggregated parts; composite; brought together by degrees.

1. increasing by successive addition