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Definitions for: Cumulative
[adj] increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances"
Webster (1913) Definition: Cu"mu*la*tive (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
cumulatif.]
1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
``As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is
cumulative, not original.'' --Bacon
2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive
additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose
force increases as the statement proceeds.
The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and
single, but moral and cumulative. --Trench.
3. (Law)
(a) Tending to prove the same point to which other
evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
(b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of
a legacy. --Bouvier. --Wharton.
Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by
virtue of which they produce, when administered in small
doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect
as if given in a single large dose.
Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is
cumulative.
Cumulative vote or system of voting (Politics), that
system which allows to each voter as many votes as there
are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate
these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among
the candidates as he pleases.
Synonyms: accumulative, additive
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