cumulation

cu·mu·late

C0804000 (kyo͞om′yə-lāt′)v. cu·mu·lat·ed, cu·mu·lat·ing, cu·mu·lates v.tr.1. To gather in a heap; accumulate.2. To combine into one unit; merge.v.intr. To become massed.adj. Having cumulated or having been cumulated; heaped up or amassed.

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[Latin cumulāre, cumulāt-, from cumulus, heap; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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cu′mu·la′tion n.

Cumulation

 a heap or pile; an accumulation.Examples: cumulation of evidence, 1794; of prosperity, 1625.

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cumulation - a collection of objects laid on top of each otherheap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, moundaggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a wholecompost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compostmuckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refusescrapheap - pile of discarded metalshock - a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock"slagheap - pile of waste matter from coal mining etcstack - an orderly pilefuneral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral ritewoodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuelstockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use

cumulation

nounA quantity accumulated:accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, gathering, mass.

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