Layer upon layer and number upon number do create a cumulative shape. And it could be related to other objects. And being as such it could be related to non-objects and otherwise in a sense that it could be related to human misery or the opposite. In this sense this word is a free word in the sense that it could be related to anything. More precisely here cumulative could be related to human intelligence or the opposite.

DR.HASHIM S.H. BEHBEHANI