The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.

an accumulation of ecclesiastical prebends and offices, as in the hands of a bishop, often leading to less attention paid to individual prebends or offices.

The bringing together, into one issue or one alphabetical arrangement, a group of issues which were originally published separately.

The successive gathering of entries of earlier issues or volumes into a single volume. For instance, citations in the monthly issues of a periodical index often are cumulated yearly into one volume.

Rules allowing components and processing in certain partner countries to be considered for the acquisition or maintenance of preferential origin