different between cumulative vs ogive

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

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, from Middle French augive/ogive. Doublet of ogee.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????a?v/, /???d?a?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o??a?v/, /?o?d?a?v/

Noun

ogive (plural ogives)

1. (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
2. (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
3. (ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
4. (geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.

Related terms

• ogee
• ogival

Translations

Further reading

• ogive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pointed arch (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• vogie

French

Alternative forms

• augive (obsolete)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin [Term?], from Latin aug?re, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?iv/

Noun

ogive f (plural ogives)

1. (architecture) diagonal rib, ogive
2. (military) nose cone (of missile)

Derived terms

• croisée d'ogives
• ogive nucléaire

Descendants

• English: ogee

References

• Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy

Further reading

• “ogive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

ogive f

1. plural of ogiva

Anagrams

• Giove