Cumulative vs. Noncumulative — What's the Difference?

Increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions

Not cumulative.

Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.

(finance) Not having an accumulating right to receive dividends unpaid in previous periods.

Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.

Of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.

Supporting the same point as earlier evidence

Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender

Following successively; consecutive

Of or relating to the total observed frequency of data, or the probability of a random variable, that is less than or equal to a specified value.

Of or relating to experimental error that increases in magnitude with each successive measurement.

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.

(linguistics) Adding one statement to another.

That tends to accumulate.

(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.

(law) of evidence, witnesses, etc. Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.

Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; - said of evidence.

Increasing by successive addition;