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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun summation has 4 senses
- summation(n = noun.communication) rundown, summing up - a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); Array is a kind of sum-up, summary
- summation(n = noun.process) Array - (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; Array is a kind of biological process, organic process
- summation(n = noun.group) sum, sum total - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
- summation(n = noun.act) addition, plus - 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" is a kind of arithmetic operation
Derived forms verb sum1, adjective summational1
Derived form adjective summational1
has particulars: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration
Derived form adjective summational1
Derived forms verb sum2, adjective summational1
CIDE DICTIONARY
The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. [1913 Webster]
"Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
summation, n.
1 the finding of a total or sum; an addition.
2 a summing-up.
1 the finding of a total or sum; an addition.
2 a summing-up.
Derivative
summational adj.
THESAURUS
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 numberROGET THESAURUS
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Numeration
N numeration, numbering, pagination, tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation, calculation, calculus, algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy, measurement, statistics, arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions, differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus, calculus of differences, dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation, account, notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan, adding machine, cash register, electronic calculator, calculator, computer, arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist, mathematician, statistician, geometer, programmer, accountant, auditor, numeral, numerical, arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable, commensurable, commensurate, incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite, quantitatively, arithmetically, measurably, in numbers.
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