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summation Definition

sum·ma·tion (sə mās̸hən)

noun

  1. the act or process of summing up, or of finding a total
  2. a total or aggregate
  3. 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.