Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of heaping together or piling up; accumulation.
- noun That which is cumulated or heaped together; a heap.
- noun In civil law, and thence in Scots and Louisiana law, combination of causes of action or defenses in a single proceeding; joinder, so that all must be tried together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of heaping together; a heap. See
accumulation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Accumulation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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Examples
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For one, how can you really know someone unless you interact with them on a very personal level over a certain cumulation of time?
Book Review: The Audacity of Hope | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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You are talking about the cumulation of a 30+ year strategy starting in the 1980s.
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Now, a cumulation of mismanagement, inferior training, bad judgment calls and arrogance have come back to smack the force in the face.
Who Watches the Watchmen: Police Investigating Themselves « Colleen Anderson 2009
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Writes of Passage is the cumulation of over 30 years of writing poetry; her first poem being a reactionary poem about the Vietnam War at the tender age of nine.
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The dismissal of the prosecution shall have the same effect as acquittal, except that the conviction may be considered as a first offense and provide the basis for subsequent prosecution of the party as a multiple offender, and further shall be considered as a first offense for purposes of any other law or laws relating to cumulation of offenses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Acquittal in “I Didn’t Know I Was a Felon” Felon-in-Possession Case 2010
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The key take-away from Mark's post is that relationships develop over time, and given the importance and longevity of the VC/founder relationship it benefits from the cumulation of interaction and data sharing between the parties.
Roger Ehrenberg: Speed Can Kill Roger Ehrenberg 2011
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It shows the cumulation of events that shaped his point of view and drove him down this course of action.
Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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It is not just one friend or one incident, there is a cumulation of influences that have been an integral part of his life and they all add up.
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You are talking about the cumulation of a 30+ year strategy starting in the 1980s.
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So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought.
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