cumulate

During sleep, brain cells produce bursts of electrical pulses that cumulate into rhythmic waves -- a sign of heightened brain cell function.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

Peters, B. J., Day, J. M. D. & Taylor, L. A. Early mantle heterogeneities in the Réunion hotspot source inferred from highly siderophile elements in cumulate xenoliths.

From Nature ● Feb. 27, 2018

Sir Charles labored only to heap up the evidences of evolution; to cumulate them till the mass became irresistible.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

The elector is given as many votes as there are members to be elected, which he may cumulate upon any one or distribute among several candidates.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.

Why may there not be different points of view for surveying it, within each of which all data harmonize, and which the observer may therefore either choose between, or simply cumulate one upon another?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

“This creates a compounding effect where the final price of a good reflects not just the direct increase in the local energy price but the cumulated effects of price increases across international suppliers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

"We cannot measure the epidemiological situation only based on cumulated incidence," she said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2021

Germany, with more than 300,000 cumulated applications, and Sweden, with 100,000, are the E.U.’s top receiving countries.

From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016

With her dusty scrolls, Clio is not just the muse of history, but an emblem of the cumulated wisdom of the ages.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2010

So the different meditations on Brahman also may be cumulated with a view to greater fulness of intuition of Brahman.—This view the Sûtra rejects.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

The trust funds were a way of cumulating workers’ aggregate tax payments to ensure an equal sum would be paid out again, in aggregate, at some point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The longer the race, the more crucial it is to be conservative with pacing, since fatigue in longer races reflects slowly cumulating processes, such as glycogen depletion and tissue damage.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

Practice indicates that they should be spaced no farther apart than the effective depth of the member, and spaced closer or made heavier toward the ends, in order to keep pace with cumulating shear.

From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Godfrey, Edward

This arrangement often led to a cumulating divergence from radial lines in some of the partitions, which irregularity was taken up in one room, as in this instance, in the space near the gate.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

We were now only nineteen miles from Jacksboro, in the valley of the Clinch, but the distance was multiplied by the cumulating difficulties of the way.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson