nonaccumulative

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adjective

Not accumulative; that does not accumulate.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectivenonaccumulative (not comparable)
  1. 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 2
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    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)
adjectivenonaccumulative (comparative more nonaccumulative, superlative most nonaccumulative)

comparative more nonaccumulative · superlative most nonaccumulative

  1. 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 20
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    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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  15. Proto-Italic*ad
  16. Proto-Italic*ad-
  17. Latinad-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*ḱewh₁-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*ḱuh₁mósder.?
  20. Latincumulus
  21. Latincumulō
  22. Latinaccumulō
  23. Latinaccumulātus
  24. Middle Englishaccumylaten
  25. Englishaccumulate
  26. Englishaccumulative
  27. Englishnonaccumulative

From non- + accumulative.

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APA

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Chicago

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