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NOUN (4)

1. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court);
[syn: summation, summing up, rundown]

2. (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;

3. the final aggregate;
- Example: "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
[syn: sum, summation, sum total]

4. the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers;
- Example: "the summation of four and three gives seven"
- Example: "four plus three equals seven"
[syn: summation, addition, plus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Summation \Sum*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. sommation. See Sum, v. t.] The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. [1913 Webster] Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

summation n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) [syn: summation, summing up, rundown] 2: (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 3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total] 4: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus]