summing

Variant of sum

noun

  1. an amount of money: a sum paid in reparation
  2. the whole amount; totality; aggregate: the sum of our experience
  3. the gist or a summary of something said, done, etc.: usually in
    1. the result obtained by adding numbers or quantities; total
    2. Old-fashioned a series of numbers to be added together, or any problem in arithmetic
    3. the limit of the sum of the first n terms of an infinite series as n grows indefinitely
    4. the set containing every element belonging to one or both of two original sets and no other elements
    5. in Boolean algebra, disjunction (sense )
  4. Archaic the highest degree; height; summit
  5. 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

  1. to determine the sum of by adding
  2. to summarize or review briefly; sum up

intransitive verb

to get, or come to, a total
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