adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cumulative effect (= the effect of many things happening one after the other )
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The cumulative effect of these policies will be to push up inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
effect
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Though single pieces were restrained, the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically.
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The cumulative effect provides an even more impressive testimonial.
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Their cumulative effect would give rise to the microwave background radiation.
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The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.
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Then there is the cumulative effect of accidents, small and large.
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But the cumulative effect is gridlock.
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Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect .
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The cumulative effect of this conscientious blandness denied Lisa a distinctive personality, which limited the fervor of its users.
impact
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While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years, the cumulative impact is significant.
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Moreover, the cumulative impact of temporary disablements is considerably smaller than that of permanent impairments.
incidence
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A class of K-sample tests for comparing the cumulative incidence of a competing risk.
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Since the time to clinical progression was known, we used Kaplan-Meier analysis to estimate cumulative incidence .
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Neglia and colleagues2based their estimates of cumulative risks on Kaplan-Meier statistics, which commonly overestimates the true cumulative incidence .
process
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The cumulative process is directed by nonrandom survival.
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It was difficult for the authorities to detect this cumulative process at work.
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The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual, cumulative process .
selection
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Before that there were many generations of cumulative selection , based upon some quite different replicating entities.
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Tiny mutations would make cumulative selection too slow.
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Could a form of cumulative selection get going?
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It therefore is converged upon by cumulative selection from two very different starting points.
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In our computer models in Chapter 3, we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection .
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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
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I shall introduce its fundamental essence in Chapter 3 under the title of cumulative selection .
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Chance is a minor ingredient in the Darwinian recipe, but the most important ingredient is cumulative selection which is quintessentially nonrandom.
total
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The cumulative totals for each column are also entered.
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Jurors in the three previous trials have voted by a cumulative total of 23 to 13 to convict.
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This brings the cumulative total donated to charity since the scheme began in 1990 to £25,500.
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This process requires a table of 2849 entries, each showing the cumulative total of records up to the start of that set.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative .
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The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.
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The essential difference between single-step selection and cumulative selection is this.
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The figure illustrates the cumulative ulcer free survival curves of patients randomised to each drug.
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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
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This situation, although made worse by the war, was a cumulative problem dating from the period of colonial dependency.