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nonaccumulative

nonaccumulative adjective: not accumulative; that does not accumulate.

Adjective (1)

nonaccumulative (not comparable)

  1. Not accumulative; that does not accumulate.
    • It is characterized by low rotor inertia, no drift, and nonaccumulative positioning error.1979, Benjamin C. Kuo, Step motors and control systems, page 2
    • Nonaccumulative additional sick leave benefits shall be allowed to teachers according to the following schedule:1983, New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Labor Committee, Public Hearing Before Assembly Labor Committee on A-585 (proposes Various Amendments to the Employer-Employee Relations Act)

Adjective (2)

nonaccumulative (comparative more nonaccumulative, superlative most nonaccumulative)

  1. Tending to avoid accumulation.
    • Curiously, the key protagonists in both camps accepted the idea of a specific "peasant" economy, mode of production, or production form (e.g., de Appendini and Almeida 1976: 36-37; Stavenhagen 1978; Warman 1980; Bartra 1978: 75-90) distinguished from the capitalist economy by its undifferentiated...2012, Scott Cook, Leigh Binford, Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism, page 17
    • The feast was actually a nonaccumulative practice and a way of getting rid of excessive wealth accumulated over years of subsistence economic practices.2016, Tezenlo Thong, Colonization, Proselytization, and Identity, page 20

Forms of nonaccumulative

comparativemore nonaccumulative
superlativemost nonaccumulative

Origin of nonaccumulative

From non- + accumulative.

Questions about nonaccumulative

What does nonaccumulative mean?
Nonaccumulative means not accumulative; that does not accumulate.
What part of speech is nonaccumulative?
Nonaccumulative is an adjective.

Words near nonaccumulative in the dictionary

  1. nonaccrued
  2. nonacculturated
  3. nonacculturative
  4. nonaccumulating
  5. nonaccumulation
  6. nonaccumulative
  7. nonaccurate
  8. nonaccursed
  9. nonaccusative
  10. nonaccusatory
  11. nonaccustomed

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