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Cumulation vs Cumulative - What's the difference?

cumulation | cumulative |

As a noun cumulation

is accumulation.

As an adjective cumulative is

incorporating all data up to the present.

cumulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Accumulation.
  • * 1859 , The Veterinarian , volume XXXII-V, fourth series, page 82:
  • The cumulation and toleration of medicines.
  • * 1982 , Journal of the Indian Chemical Society , volume 59, page 1329:
  • The Cumulation of Methylmercury and Phenylmercury Species on Alga.
  • * 1997 , Graham Bell, The basics of selection , page 15:
  • Very improbable structures readily arise through the cumulation of small alterations.
  • * 2004 , Leslie Kish, Statistical design for research , page 186:
  • Changes in internal boundaries can also occur more frequently and can complicate cumulations of data for cities [...]
  • The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • * 2013 , Switzerland Federal Department of Finance, [http://www.ezv.admin.ch/pdf_linker.php?doc=Die_Kumulation_in_den_Freihandelsabkommen&lang=en]:
  • Cumulation' is a deviation from the principle that goods must be produced entirely in the country of exportation, or have undergone sufficient working or processing there, in order to qualify as originating goods. ' Cumulation makes it possible for goods from a free trade partner to be treated the same as those originating in the country of exportation.

    cumulative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incorporating all data up to the present
  • That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
  • * Francis Bacon
  • As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
  • * Trench
  • The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
  • That tends to accumulate
  • (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
  • Derived terms

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