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CUMULATION

Definition: CUMULATION

CUMULATION

Noun

1. The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CUMULATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)


Specialty Definition: CUMULATION

DomainDefinition

Labor

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CUMULATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Assemblage

Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: CUMULATION

DomainTitle

Books

  • Articles in American studies, 1954-1968; a cumulation of the annual bibliographies from American quarterly (reference)

  • Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers /1997 Annual Cumulation (reference)

  • Biography Today 1998 Annual Cumulation: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today. Annual Cumulation, 1998) (reference)

  • Biography Today 1999 Annual Cumulation: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today. Annual Cumulation, 1999) (reference)

  • Book Review Index 1996 Cumulation (Serial) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Biography Today - Hardbound Annual Cumulation (reference)

  • Current Contents : Agriculture Biology & Environmental Sciences - Cd-Rom - Annual Cumulation (reference)

  • Aviation Tradescan Year End Cumulation (reference)

  • Guidelines - Annual Cumulation (reference)

  • Guidelines - Incls Annual Cumulation & Education Guidelines (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CUMULATION

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Hungary

In July 1997, Hungary acceded to the Pan-European Cumulation System. (references)

Hungary

The Government of Hungary joined the PECS on December 28, 1996, with an effective date of July 1, 1997. Under the PECS, companies that import inputs from outside the cumulation area must pay duty in order to take advantage of free-trade preferences when exporting their finished goods to PECS countries. (references)

Hungary

One of the most important developments influencing trade between the EU and Hungary has been the Pan-European Cumulation System (PECS), comprising a set of EU bilateral agreements, which aims to harmonize standards and rules-of-origin laws between the EU, EFTA, CEFTA, and other countries on the periphery such as the Baltic States (a total of 29 countries). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CUMULATION

"CUMULATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CUMULATION" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CUMULATION

Language Translations for "CUMULATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

grumbullim (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, amassment, collection, conglomeration, congregation, crowding, gathering, Ingathering, milling, muster, rally, round up, ruck, turn out). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, bulk, collect, collection, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), натрупване (accretion, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, concourse, congestion, hilling, jam, lodgement, lodgment). (various references)

   

Czech

  

hromadìní. (various references)

   

Danish

  

kumulering, kumulation (aggregation), akkumulering (accumulation, aggrégation, build-up, build-up effect, congestion, stocking, storing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cumulatie (accumulation, simultaneous collection), ophoping (accumulation, cluster, storage). (various references)

   

French

  

cumulation, cumul, accumulation. (various references)

   

German

  

Steigerung (aggravation, build up, comparative, enhancement, escalation, gain, heightening, improvement, increase, increment, intensification, rise). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, hoarding). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felhalmozás (agglomeration, aggregation, piling). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cumulo (bank, chunkily, clam, clamp, clot, clots, cumulus, drift, heap, hoard, lump, mound, pile, Rick), accumulazione (accrual, accumulation, assembly, storage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umulationcay

   

Portuguese

  

acumulação (accumulation, assembly, build-up, congeries, jamming). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

acumulare (accumulation, amassment, assemblage). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

накопление (accrual, accruals, accruement, accumulation, conglomeration, stockpiling, storage, upbuilding). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kumulacija, gomilanje (accrual, accumulation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recogida en montón. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

samlande (collecting, collection, muster). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кумуляція, накопичення (accumulation, conglomeration), збирання (aggregation, assemblage, canvass, collection, compilation, gathering, levy, picking, plucking). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tích luỹ (accumulation, amassment), sự d"n lại (accrual, accruement), sự chất chứa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CUMULATION

Derivations

Words beginning with "CUMULATION": cumulations. (additional references)

Words ending with "CUMULATION": accumulation. (additional references)

Words containing "CUMULATION": accumulations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CUMULATION"

Words rhyming with "CUMULATION" (pronounced 'Cu`mu*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CUMULATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-t-u-u"

-2 letters: aconitum, inoculum.

-3 letters: auction, caution, inocula, limacon, linocut, lunatic, manitou, outlain, tinamou.

-4 letters: action, alnico, alumin, alumni, amount, anomic, atomic, atonic, autumn, camion, cation, catlin, citola, coital, column, conium, cumuli, incult, latino, lumina, maloti, manioc, manito, manitu, mantic, moulin, muonic, mutual, oilcan, oilman, outman, talcum, talion, tincal, toluic, toucan, tumuli, tunica, ultima, ultimo.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: cumulations.

 

+2 letters: accumulation.

 

+3 letters: accumulations, noncumulative, uncustomarily.

 

+4 letters: contumaciously, rambunctiously.

 

+5 letters: multifunctional.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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