cumulate

Example Sentences

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During sleep, brain cells produce bursts of electrical pulses that cumulate into rhythmic waves -- a sign of heightened brain cell function.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

Peters, B. J., Day, J. M. D. & Taylor, L. A. Early mantle heterogeneities in the Réunion hotspot source inferred from highly siderophile elements in cumulate xenoliths.

From Nature • Feb. 27, 2018

Why may there not be different points of view for surveying it, within each of which all data harmonize, and which the observer may therefore either choose between, or simply cumulate one upon another?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

In like manner it is held that within the mind processes cumulate and rise to a certain height before they cross the threshold of consciousness.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert

The later Swiss laws allow electors to cumulate three votes, but not more, upon any one candidate, so that the success of popular candidates is assured.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.