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cumulate verb

• gather together and combine.
• "the systems cumulate data over a period of years"
• attach two double bonds to the same carbon atom.

cumulate noun

• 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"
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.


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