Cumulative vs Collection - What's the difference?
cumulative | collection |
Incorporating all data up to the present
That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
* Francis Bacon
* Trench
That tends to accumulate
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* (William Whewell)
* Dunglison
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
* , chapter=5
, title= The activity of collecting.
(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
As an adjective cumulative
is incorporating all data up to the present.As a noun collection is
a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.cumulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
- The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .
Derived terms
* (l)collection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- Collections of moisture.
- A purulent collection .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
