cumulating

Piling up steadily

Cumulating is the present participle of cumulate, meaning to gather or heap together, to accumulate.

The word appears most often in technical contexts: cumulating evidence, cumulating returns.

In voting systems, cumulative voting allows cumulating all one's votes on a single candidate rather than distributing them.

growing

development

Progress toward maturity

escalation · enlargement · progression · amplification · enhancement · extension · proliferation · augmentation · intensification · swelling

accumulating

amassing

Collecting in quantity

stockpiling · piling · concentrating · consolidating · marshaling · coalescing · assembling · collecting · accruing · heaping

depositing

sediment

Particles settling in liquid

encrustation · concretion · agglomeration · precipitation · adhesion · fouling · scale · film · residue · accretion

Opposites
accumulation vs. dispersal

cumulatingdispersing

Spreading widely apart

scattering · dissipating · distributing · spreading · diffusing

building up vs. depleting

cumulatingdepleting

Progressively using up

spending · exhausting · draining · diminishing · consuming

Phrases
Family

accumulation, cumulative, accumulating, accumulative, cumulatively, cumulation

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