Meanings
- not comparableNot accumulative; that does not accumulate.
It is characterized by low rotor inertia, no drift, and nonaccumulative positioning error.
1979, Benjamin C. Kuo, Step motors and control systems, page 21 more example
Nonaccumulative additional sick leave benefits shall be allowed to teachers according to the following schedule:
1983, New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Labor Committee, Public Hearing Before Assembly Labor Committee on A-585 (proposes Various Amendments to the Employer-Employee Relations Act)
comparative more nonaccumulative · superlative most nonaccumulative
- Tending to avoid accumulation.
The feast was actually a nonaccumulative practice and a way of getting rid of excessive wealth accumulated over years of subsistence economic practices.
2016, Tezenlo Thong, Colonization, Proselytization, and Identity, page 201 more example
Curiously, the key protagonists in both camps accepted the idea of a specific "peasant" economy, mode of production, or production form (e.g., de Appendini and Almeida 1976: 36-37; Stavenhagen 1978; Warman 1980; Bartra 1978: 75-90) distinguished from the capitalist economy by its undifferentiated and nonaccumulative character—even though admittedly inserted in, and surrounded by, capitalism.
2012, Scott Cook, Leigh Binford, Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism, page 17
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱuh₁mósder.?
- Latincumulus
- Latincumulō
- Latinaccumulō
- Latinaccumulātus
- Middle Englishaccumylaten
- Englishaccumulate
- Englishaccumulative
- Englishnonaccumulative
From non- + accumulative.
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