[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.
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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]