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cu·mu·late

(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.

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

cu′mu·la′tion n.

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Cumulation

a heap or pile; an accumulation.

Examples: cumulation of evidence, 1794; of prosperity, 1625.

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Noun

cumulation - a collection of objects laid on top of each other

heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound

aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole

compost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost

muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refuse

scrapheap - pile of discarded metal

shock - 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 etc

stack - an orderly pile

funeral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

woodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel

stockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use

cumulation

noun

A quantity accumulated:

accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, gathering, mass.

Translations

cumulation

n → Anhäufung f, → Häufung f

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