different between cumulative vs dcg

English

Etymology

From cumulate +? -ive. Compare also French cumulatif, Italian cumulativo and Spanish cumulativo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?mj?l?t?v/, /?kju?mj??le?t?v/

Adjective

cumulative (comparative more cumulative, superlative most cumulative)

1. Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
2. That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
   • 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord

     The argument […] is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.

   1. (linguistics) Adding one statement to another.

3. That tends to accumulate.
4. (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
5. (law) (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.

Derived terms

• cume

Related terms

• cumulate

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.my.la.tiv/

Adjective

cumulative

1. feminine singular of cumulatif

Italian

Adjective

cumulative

1. feminine plural of cumulativo