summation
summation
Definition
sum·ma·tion (sə mā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act or process of summing up, or of finding a total
- a total or aggregate
- the final summing up of arguments, as in a court trial or debate, before the decision is given
Etymology: ModL summatio
summation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- series: For example, the summation of divergent series is of great importance in the large order perturbation theory of quantum mechanical systems.
- life: Ice PR Ltd and the Funky Bunker Studios are the summation of a life hooked on music for JP.
- year: Mike McCloskey wrote an excellent summation of last year 's event.
- product: ADAPTATION SUMMARY Manuscript Title: Reduced matrix elements of summations of one-particle tensor products.
- work: This is a great, great verse, verse 34, it is a summation of the work of Christ.
Converse of object
- represent: There's no question that this book represents the summation of Nabokov's career as a writer.
- give: The judge gives a new final summation with quite a different slant.
- provide: Her actions are too contradictory to be able to provide a proper summation.
- involve: Accuracy: The above computations involve summations of range filter power values.
Adjective modifier
- perfect: But it's a perfect summation of the situation.
- final: The judge gives a new final summation with quite a different slant.
- good: In conclusion, the best summation made of the trip had to be by Richard Owen of the Times.
- partial: The cross section is calculated by partial wave summation.
- fair: Is that a fair summation of what you were saying?
- infinite: An approximation is proposed by truncating an infinite summation.
Modifies a noun
- formula: The relationship is expressed more exactly by Abel's summation formula.
- convention: Introduction of suffix notation and the summation convention including and.
- variable: Each reduction rule contributes to the final summation formula by a numerical factor or by an additional summation variable.
- function: Since is itself a summation function, our main objective, the prime number theorem, is a result of exactly this type.
- method: Another aim will be to study some long standing problems of fluid dynamics by use of series summation methods.
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