Cumulative

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

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

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

(a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.

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• There is none of that cumulative growth which makes an experience in any vital sense of that term. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The beaming sight, and the penetrating warmth, seemed to breed in him a cumulative cheerfulness, which soon amounted to delight. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The cumulative power of feeble forces acting frequently at definite intervals is seen in many ways in everyday life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It includes cognition in the degree in which it is cumulative or amounts to something, or has meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Their cumulative effect is certainly considerable, and yet each of them is quite possible in itself. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This cumulative movement of action toward a later result is what is meant by growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But printing gives to the present the cumulative wisdom of the past, and marks a great era of growth in civilization. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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