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SUMMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summation mean? 

SUMMATION (noun)
  The noun SUMMATION has 4 senses:

1. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)play

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 produceplay

3. the final aggregateplay

4. the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbersplay

  Familiarity information: SUMMATION used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUMMATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rundown; summation; summing up

Hypernyms ("summation" is a kind of...):

sum-up; summary (a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

sum (be a summary of)

summational (of or relating to a summation or produced by summation)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("summation" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

Derivation:

summational (of or relating to a summation or produced by summation)


Sense 3

Meaning:

The final aggregate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

sum; sum total; summation

Context example:

the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered

Hypernyms ("summation" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summation"):

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

Derivation:

summational (of or relating to a summation or produced by summation)


Sense 4

Meaning:

The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

addition; plus; summation

Context example:

four plus three equals seven

Hypernyms ("summation" is a kind of...):

arithmetic operation (a mathematical operation involving numbers)

Derivation:

sum (determine the sum of)

summational (of or relating to a summation or produced by summation)


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