Word of the Day:
cumulative
What It Means
Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
Adding one statement to another.
The state wants to bring in ten blood-spatter experts to testify. Your Honor, that is cumulative testimony.
Cumulative in Context
“The argument […] is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.”
Did You Know?
From cumulate + -ive. Compare also French cumulatif, Italian cumulativo and Spanish cumulativo.
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