noun
- an amount of money: a sum paid in reparation
- the whole amount; totality; aggregate: the sum of our experience
- the gist or a summary of something said, done, etc.: usually in
- the result obtained by adding numbers or quantities; total
- Old-fashioned a series of numbers to be added together, or any problem in arithmetic
- the limit of the sum of the first n terms of an infinite series as n grows indefinitely
- the set containing every element belonging to one or both of two original sets and no other elements
- in Boolean algebra, disjunction (sense )
- Archaic the highest degree; height; summit
- pl. sum
Origin:
Uzbek sŭm
the basic monetary unit of Uzbekistan
Origin:
ME somme < MFr < L summa, fem. of summus, highest, superl. < base of super: see super-
transitive verb summed, summing
- to determine the sum of by adding
- to summarize or review briefly; sum up
intransitive verb
to get, or come to, a total