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Cumulation vs Gathering - What's the difference?

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Cumulation is a related term of gathering.


As nouns the difference between cumulation and gathering

is that cumulation is accumulation while gathering is a meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

As a verb gathering is

present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together.

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.

    Related terms

    * accumulation

    gathering

    English

    (wikipedia gathering)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
    • I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
  • A group of people or things.
    • A gathering of fruit.
  • ((bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
    • This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
  • A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), equivalent to .

    Verb

    (head)
  • present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
    • She enjoyed gathering wildflowers.
    Derived terms
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