Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.cumulativecu‧mu‧la‧tive /ˈkjuːmjələtɪv $ -leɪtɪv/ ●○○ adjective 
Learning is a cumulative process.cumulative effect (of something) Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.
WORD ORIGINcumulative
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulare; ➔ ACCUMULATEEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative.
- The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.
- The essential difference between single-step selection and cumulative selection is this.
- The figure illustrates the cumulative ulcer free survival curves of patients randomised to each drug.
- The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
- This situation, although made worse by the war, was a cumulative problem dating from the period of colonial dependency.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
increasing gradually as more of something is added or happens: Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork. (=the effect of many things happening one after the other)· The cumulative effect of these policies will be to push up inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Though single pieces were restrained, the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically.· The cumulative effect provides an even more impressive testimonial.· Their cumulative effect would give rise to the microwave background radiation.· The cumulative effect of all of these efforts would ultimately turn the tide.· Then there is the cumulative effect of accidents, small and large.· But the cumulative effect is gridlock.· Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect.· The cumulative effect of this conscientious blandness denied Lisa a distinctive personality, which limited the fervor of its users.
· While this growth is less spectacular than that of the past few years, the cumulative impact is significant.· Moreover, the cumulative impact of temporary disablements is considerably smaller than that of permanent impairments.
· A class of K-sample tests for comparing the cumulative incidence of a competing risk.· Since the time to clinical progression was known, we used Kaplan-Meier analysis to estimate cumulative incidence.· Neglia and colleagues2based their estimates of cumulative risks on Kaplan-Meier statistics, which commonly overestimates the true cumulative incidence.
· The cumulative process is directed by nonrandom survival.· It was difficult for the authorities to detect this cumulative process at work.· The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual, cumulative process.
· Before that there were many generations of cumulative selection, based upon some quite different replicating entities.· Tiny mutations would make cumulative selection too slow.· Could a form of cumulative selection get going?· It therefore is converged upon by cumulative selection from two very different starting points.· In our computer models in Chapter 3, we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection.· The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.· I shall introduce its fundamental essence in Chapter 3 under the title of cumulative selection.· Chance is a minor ingredient in the Darwinian recipe, but the most important ingredient is cumulative selection which is quintessentially nonrandom.
· The cumulative totals for each column are also entered.· Jurors in the three previous trials have voted by a cumulative total of 23 to 13 to convict.· This brings the cumulative total donated to charity since the scheme began in 1990 to £25,500.· This process requires a table of 2849 entries, each showing the cumulative total of records up to the start of that set.
Learning is a cumulative process.cumulative effect (of something) Depression is often caused by the cumulative effects of stress and overwork.