CUMULATIVE

adjective Date: 1605 1. made up of accumulated parts, increasing by successive additions, tending to prove the same point , 3. taking effect upon completion of another penal sentence , increasing in severity with repetition of the offense , formed by the addition of new material of the same kind , summing or integrating overall data or values of a random variable less than or less than or equal to a specified value , ~ly adverb ~ness noun