Accumulative means having the characteristic of tending to accumulate. Cumulative means having built up or accumulated over time. E.g. something has a cumulative effect, or is a …

Mar 11, 2016 · Beyond that, it can be said that accumulate is used about 30 times more frequently than cumulate, according to Google's Ngram Viewer. On the other hand, the adjective …

Mar 8, 2019 · Is there a difference in meaning between accumulated sum and cumulative sum? In this case we are talking about prizes we collect.

Jan 20, 2017 · Of course, the corresponding Latinate adjectives "accumulative", "agglomerative", "conglomerative" and "coalescent" would also work, although they don't parallel "fragmenting" …

Jul 1, 2015 · Something small goes wrong, and this triggers something slightly bigger, which triggers something slightly bigger, and so on and so forth until you end up with a chain of …

These words seem to be used interchangeably, but there seems to be a slight difference between them. 'Collecting' seems to be organized gathering of certain objects or a certain category of …

Oct 19, 2019 · Consider a set of items, each having a certain cost. I would like to refer to the sum of the costs of the items in the set. Is there a difference between or a preference for one of the …

Jun 17, 2014 · I looked up meriam webster and the two definitions seem to semantically largely overlap. the only thing hinting towards the existense of distinctness between the two terms, …

Jun 15, 2020 · Adjectives acting in the capacity of adverbs? Or just accumulative adjectives? Ask Question Asked 5 years, 4 months ago Modified 5 years, 4 months ago

Sep 22, 2022 · Sample sentence： Your score "can be accumulated". I tried 'accumulable', but thought it would be too casual for writing.