cumulative

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulatively
add fuel to the fireidiom
add to something
blaze
fade
go up
growing
growingly
heighten
hot up
inflation
mushroom
ratchet something up/down
re-escalate
re-escalation
reach a crescendo
redouble
stake

Examples of accumulative

accumulative
However, the precision of estimation was reduced for models fitted at the youngest ages, reflecting the lower accumulative rates of parenthood in the teenage years.
Furthermore, the nature of this problem will cause larger accumulative errors than those in many other axisymmetric problems.
From curricular perspectives, curriculum that features plenty of sound composition (in conjunction with related listening and other performance opportunities) is developmental and summational, not accumulative.
Yet the continued development of regulations in an accumulative ad hoc progression correlates strongly with the final stages of his model.
This process of unequal growth also had an accumulative character which tended to reinforce the development of population centres where industrialisation had already begun.
Missing either element will prevent our complete understanding of the dynamic and accumulative nature of identities.
The structure is 'accumulative' in that the material from each chapter and the exercise(s) is used as material for analysis in subsequent chapters.
The accumulative beam on time for an implant is about 5 minutes.
Accumulative contribution ratio was 81.64%, and it shows the usefulness of this analysis.
This problem could not be resolved by one-sided, accumulative appropriation.
The accumulative effect is that more and more active-duty teachers are short of training.
The figures indicate the number of definitions matched with, at most, four different patterns along with the accumulative percentage on the right.
It was mentioned earlier that the compositional strategy of accumulative beginnings often seems to be one of deliberately confusing the listener.
Example 5c shows the accumulative beginning of the track.
Given its hushed delivery and extreme intimacy, the cycle's accumulative power is quite astonishing.
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