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   cumulate

   verb

   • 1. gather together and combine: "the systems cumulate data over a period of years"
   • ▪ be gathered together and combined: "all unpaid dividend payments cumulate and are paid when earnings are sufficient"
   • 2. attach two double bonds to the same carbon atom.

   noun

   • 1. an igneous rock formed by gravitational settling of particles in a magma: "they appear to have formed from cumulates in the root of a magma chamber"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘gather in a heap’): from Latin cumulat- ‘heaped’, from the verb cumulare, from cumulus ‘a heap’. Current senses date from the early 20th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cumulation noun

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