🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

cumulativo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ku.mu.laˈtʃi.vu/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cumulative/ˈkjuː.mjə.lə.tɪv/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O efeito cumulativo do treino trouxe resultados excelentes."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

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

    "The cumulative effect of minor lifestyle changes led to a massive improvement in her health."
  2. 2

    Formed by the accumulation of successive additions, such as a distribution function in statistics (e.g., cumulative distribution function, abbreviated as CDF).

    "The graph shows the cumulative frequency of rainfall over the past year."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin cumulativus, originating from the verb cumulare (to heap up or accumulate), from cumulus (a heap). Entering the English language in the early 17th century, it evolved to describe phenomena, effects, or quantities that increase progressively by successive additions.

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