Summation - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |sʌˈmeɪʃn|  American pronunciation of the word summation
Brit.  |sʌˈmeɪʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word summation

noun

- a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) (syn: rundown)
- (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce
- the final aggregate (syn: sum)
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers (syn: addition, plus)
the summation of four and three gives seven

Extra examples

A summation can be found at the end of the report.

We gave a summation of our discovery.

The defense attorneys and prosecutors are set to make their final summations today.

A summation made up by me to the end of last year.

That is as clean and concise a summation of a profound and complicated truth as I have come across ...

...the district attorney's brilliant, luculent summation sealed the case for the prosecution...

Word forms

noun
singular: summation
plural: summations
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