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.
Progress toward maturity
- expansionIncrease in scope
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
enlargement · progression · amplification · enhancement · extension · proliferation · augmentation · intensification
Collecting in quantity
- aggregatingCollecting into a total
- compilingGathering into unified whole
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
piling · concentrating · consolidating · marshaling · coalescing · assembling · collecting · accruing
Particles settling in liquid
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- layeringForming successive strata
- siltationAccumulation of fine waterborne particles
- encrustationHardened surface deposit
concretion · agglomeration · precipitation · adhesion · fouling · scale · film · residue
development
Progress toward maturity
- expansionIncrease in scope
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- advancementForward movement or promotion
escalation · enlargement · progression · amplification · enhancement · extension · proliferation · augmentation · intensification · swelling
amassing
Collecting in quantity
- aggregatingCollecting into a total
- compilingGathering into unified whole
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
stockpiling · piling · concentrating · consolidating · marshaling · coalescing · assembling · collecting · accruing · heaping
sediment
Particles settling in liquid
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- layeringForming successive strata
- siltationAccumulation of fine waterborne particles
encrustation · concretion · agglomeration · precipitation · adhesion · fouling · scale · film · residue · accretion
cumulatingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
scattering · dissipating · distributing · spreading · diffusing
cumulatingdepleting
Progressively using up
spending · exhausting · draining · diminishing · consuming
- cumulative effectCombined result over time
- cumulative GPACombined academic score
- cumulative examTest covering all topics
accumulation, cumulative, accumulating, accumulative, cumulatively, cumulation