cumulative sum

collocation in English

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cumulative
adjective
uk
/ˈkjuː.mjə.lə.tɪv/us
/ˈkjuː.mjə.lə.t̬ɪv/
increasing by one addition ...
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sum
noun
uk
/sʌm/us
/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition ofcumulativeandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Acumulativesumtechnique was used in six studies (4;33;34;39; 43;47).
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Generally speaking, transfers to charities are to be exempt up to acumulativesumof £50,000 for any one person whether in life or on death.
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Therefore, thecumulativesumof offences does not affect the main principle that the man could not help acting in that way.
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Then create a table with thecumulativesumof each entry in the histogram.
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The proper place of elements can then be found by a constant-time hashing andcumulativesumtable lookup rather than a linear search.
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Now, rank all the tracer values then form thecumulativesum.
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The screening process allows 7000 students to sit for the admission test, based on thecumulativesumof grade points in these four subjects.
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If digits remain, then thecumulativesumis multiplied by 26 before adding the next digit, and so on.
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Thecumulativesumof the postsynaptic potentials is fed to the soma.
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Thecumulativesumtable will then contain the position in the array of each element.
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The percentage power accounted for by the cumulative sums gives an indication of degree to which additional components are required to fit the waveform set.
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By contrast, more traditional partition functions involve random variables that are real-valued, and range over a simplex--a simplex, being a compact geometric domain admitting acumulativesumof one.
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