Summation Definition

sə-māshən
noun
The act or process of summing up, or of finding a total.
Webster's New World
A total or aggregate.
Webster's New World
A concluding argument after the presentation of a legal case, especially an argument made to a judge or jury by an attorney for a party as to why that party should prevail.
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The final summing up of arguments, as in a court trial or debate, before the decision is given.
Webster's New World
The process by which multiple or repeated stimuli can produce a response in a nerve, muscle, or other part that one stimulus alone cannot produce.
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Other Word Forms of Summation

Noun

Singular:
summation
Plural:
summations

Origin of Summation

  • New Latin summātiō summātiōn- from Late Latin summātus past participle of summāre to sum up from Latin summa sum sum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Summation Sentence Examples

  • In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.

  • The practical bearings of a science, it will be granted, are simply, as it were, the summation of its facts, with the legitimate conclusions from them, the natural application of the data ascertained, and have not necessarily any direct relationship to its pursuit.

  • The sign of summation X is used in cases where there are several absorption bands, and consequently several similar terms on the right-hand side, each with a different value of A m.

  • The relationship is expressed more exactly by Abel's summation formula.

  • This equation is generally true for any series of transformations, provided that we regard H and W as representing the algebraic sums of all the quantities of heat supplied to, and of work done by the body, heat taken from the body or work done on the body being reckoned negative in the summation.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUM

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NONION

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