Summation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Summation \Sum*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. sommation. See {Sum}, v. t.]
     The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also,
     an aggregate.
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           Of this series no summation is possible to a finite


           intellect.                               --De Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  summation
       n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law
            court) [syn: {summing up}, {rundown}]
       2: (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can
          produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part)
          that one stimulus alone does not produce
       3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not
          equal the misery they suffered" [syn: {sum}, {sum total}]
       4: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of
          two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three
          gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: {addition},
           {plus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "summation":
     abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, account, accounts, addend,
     aggregate, amount, apocope, argument, body count, box score,
     capitulation, cast, census, compression, condensation, conspectus,
     core, count, curtailment, difference, elision, ellipsis, epitome,
     essence, evidence, foreshortening, gist, head count, inventory,
     main point, meat, nose count, number, pith, plus, plus sign,
     precis, product, quantity, recap, recapitulation, reckoning,
     recount, recounting, reduction, rehearsal, repertory, resume,
     retrenchment, run-through, rundown, score, shortening, statement,
     substance, subtotal, sum, sum and substance, summary, summing,
     summing up, summing-up, syncope, synopsis, tale, tally,
     telescoping, testimony, the bottom line, the story,
     the whole story, total, truncation, whole, x number