[cu.mu.la.tive] adj (1605) 1 a: made up of accumulated parts b: increasing by successive additions
2. a: tending to prove the same point "~ evidence" b: additional rather than repeated "~ legacy" 3 a: taking effect upon completion of another penal sentence "~ sentence" b: increasing in severity with repetition of the offense "~ penalty"
4: formed by the addition of new material of the same kind "~ book index"
5: summing or integrating overall data or values of a random variable less than or less than or equal to a specified value "~ normal distribution" "~ frequency distribution" -- cu.mu.la.tive.ly adv -- cu.mu.la.tive.ness n