Definitions

1. adjective

tending to or characterized by accumulation; forming or adding to a collection or amount.

“The accumulative effect of years of drought led to severe water shortages in the region.”

2. noun

a property of a statistical process or a probability distribution that describes how the probability of an event changes as the number of observations or trials increases.

“The accumulative distribution function is used in statistical analysis to model the probability of a particular outcome.”

3. adverb

in a way that involves or is characterized by accumulation.

“The company’s financial performance has been accumulatively better over the past quarter.”